Justice Abiola Soladoye of Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court in Lagos State on Thursday sentenced 26-year-old electrician, Sunday George, to life imprisonment for defiling his neighbourโs 12-year-old daughter.
Soladoye held that the prosecution sufficiently proved the charge of defilement against the convict who is “an irresponsible adult and a pathological liar whose testimony was an afterthought and lacked credibility.”
She added that the court was satisfied with the testimony of the victim because it was “unambiguous, chilling, cogent, convincing and truthful.”
She said, โThe defendant defiled the victim by having sex with her in the bathroom and told her not to tell anyone.
โHe had sex with her on several occasions in the bathroom and anytime she goes to watch a movie on the defendantโs phone in his room.
โIdentifications in criminal cases are very germane, the survivor, in this case, identified the man in the dock as their neighbour who defiled her severally in the bathroom and his room.
โThe defendant denied rubbing the survivorโs breast and watching movies with her on his phone in his room, this is an attempt to lie his way out but he failed.
โThe defendant is an irresponsible adult and a shameless paedophile, whose denial of having any sexual relations with the survivor is an afterthought.
โUpon careful review of the evidence before this court, the defendant is hereby found guilty and sentenced to life imprisonment.”
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