An Ogun State High Court sitting in Abeokuta, Wednesday, sentenced a 36-year-old man, Mutiu Ajibola to 14 years imprisonment for raping 11-year-old girl.
Ajibola was convicted on a one count charge of sexual assault.
The prosecution counsel, A. A Adewale, had told the court that the convict committed the offence on December 11 2018 at about 4:00pm at a village in Owode-Egba in Obafemi-Owode LGA.
Adewale said the convict had unlawful carnal knowledge of the 11-year-old girl.
He explained that the victim was hawking along Someone village when the convict called her attention that he wanted to buy her wares.
“The convict asked her to come inside the room, which told him that her mother has instructed her not to enter into anybody room while she was hawking.
“The convict pushed her inside his room, carried her into his bed and forcefully had sexual intercourse with her which caused bleeding from her vagina.
“Ajibola asked her to go home and threatened her not to tell anyone, else she would die. When she got home, her mother got to know when she noticed stains of blood on her daughter’s cloth.
“She thereafter reported the convict to the community vigilante who arrested him,” he said.
The prosecution counsel, however, said the offence committed contravenes section 32 of the Child Rights Laws of Ogun 2006.
In her judgment, the judge, Justice Mosunmola Dipeolu , held that all evidences tendered in court proved beyond reasonable doubt that the convict was guilty as charged.
Dipeolu, therefore, sentenced Ajibola to 14 years imprisonment with hard labour.
