Man, 40, jailed 8 years for defiling two minors

YENAGOA— A Chief Magistrate’s Court sitting in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, has sentenced a 40-year-old man, Godbless Ogiode, to eight years imprisonment for defiling two minors.

The convict, who resides in Kpansia, a suburb of Yenagoa, was arrested on September 15, and immediately charged to court.

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He was charged with two counts of unlawful sexual intercourse with a four-year-old girl and unlawful carnal knowledge of a five-year-old boy.

The magistrate convicted the suspect after he pleaded guilty to the charges.

Expressing delight over the judgment, Dise Ogbise-Erhisere, Chairperson, Federation of International Women Lawyer, FIDA, Bayelsa, said it was victory for them and a warning to paedophiles, child molesters and abusers.

Ogbise-Erhisere, who is also the complainant in the matter, told newsmen that she was happy with the speedy dispensation of justice in the case.

She explained that on Friday, September 15, she got a distress call from a concerned neighbour on the defilement of a boy.

According to her, she was informed by neighbours that he was a serial molester of children, where the mother of the four-year-old girl caught him having sex with her daughter.

She narrated how she reported the matter at the Ekeki Police Station and subsequent arrest of the man.

The FIDA Chairperson thanked members of the Medical Women Association of Nigeria, Bayelsa State chapter, for their role and the various medical examinations they carried out on the victims as well as the Police for the prompt arrest and prosecution.