62-Year-Old Man Bags Life Sentence For Raping Nine-Year-Old Girl

A 62-year-old man, identified as Daudu Jimoh has been given a life sentence by an Ekiti State High Court, Ado Ekiti division, for raping a nine-year-old girl.

The man who happens to be the former landlord of the house where the victim and her parents lived confessed to having committed the crime but said he didn’t penetrate the victim’s private part.

The defendant, who spoke in his own defence through his counsel was reported to have committed the offence in 2019 following which he was arrested and arraigned before the court on one count of rape.

The charge states, “that you, Daudu Jimoh, on September 27, 2019, at Ilupeju Ekiti, within the jurisdiction of this court, did rape a nine-year-old girl, contrary to Section 31(2) of the Child’s Rights Law, Cap. C7, Laws of Ekiti State, 2012.”

Najia News gathered that the victim whose name is withheld, in her testimony before the court, said, “baba Cooler (the defendant) was our landlord; he had had sex with me four times before my sister caught us on that day. He had warned me not to tell anybody or else I would die.

“In the afternoon of that day, he called me to his room. He asked me to sleep on the chair; he removed my pants and put his private parts in my bum bum. He was doing it when my sister caught us. My sister explained all that happened to my mother.”

The prosecutor, Julius Ajibare, called four witnesses and tendered the defendant’s statements and a medical report as exhibits.

Justice Lekan Ogunmoye in his judgment remarked that “the confessional statements of the defendant, both written and oral, showed without equivocation that the defendant indeed committed the offence.

“In all, the prosecution had proved his case beyond reasonable doubt against the defendant. The sole issue for determination is resolved in favour of the prosecution. He is convicted as charged. He is sentenced to life imprisonment.”