By Aideloje Ojo
Minna
A father of four children in Minna, Ndagi Mohammed, has been sentenced to three years in prison for impregnating a 12-year-old girl after having three rounds sex with her.
Mohammed was yesterday convicted of having unlawful sexual intercourse with the minor contrary to Section 18 (8) of the Niger state Child Rights Act 2010 by a Senior Magistrates’ Court presided over by Hajiya Amina Lamude Musa.
Blueprint learnt that the minor was a primary five pupil of Zurumai Primary School in Minna and that the accused lured her to his room in the same compound before committing the act.
According to the First Information Report (FIR), one Ahmed Zakariyau of Okada Street in Minna reported the case on June 22, 2014, at the GRA police station that the accused had impregnated his sister after having sexual intercourse with her even when he knew that the girl was not used to sexual intercourse.
When the charge was read to the accused person, he pleaded guilty and pleaded for leniency.
However, the prosecutor, Inspector Alfred Auta urged the court to try the accused summarily in accordance with Section 157 of Criminal Procedure Code.
In her ruling, the judge expressed shock that the man who claimed to have four children could be so heartless to put a minor in the family way.
She insisted that the court would not be fair if the accused person was not given maximum punishment as deterrent to others.
She sentenced the accused person to three years without option of fine.