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  • Crime - Delta
  • Updated: February 05, 2023

Man Bags Life Imprisonment For Raping Four-Year-Old Daughter

Man Bags Life Imprisonment For Raping Four-Year-Old Daughter

Convicted rapist, Amechi Ogo

The Delta State High Court sitting in Asaba has sentenced a 28-year-old-man, Amechi Ogo, to life imprisonment for raping his four-year-old daughter. 

The defendant was arraigned before the court on a charge of rape for having unlawful carnal of his child at Asaba on May 31, 2018, contrary to Section 218 of the Criminal Code Law of Delta State. 

The prosecution led by the Director of Sexual Offences Unit, Ministry of Justice, P.U. Akamagwuna told the Court that the defendant came home on the fateful day and demanded sex from his wife.

When his wife turned him down and left the house on an errand, the defendant forced himself on his infant daughter.

He was caught in the act by a neighbour and fled the scene. He was subsequently arrested by the police.

The defendant made a confessional statement which was tendered in court.

In his trial, the defendant retracted the confessional statement and denied committing the offence.

Delivering judgement, Honourable Justice Flora Ngozi Azinge held that the evidence of the four-year-old child and the witness who caught him in the act together with the defendant’s own confessional statement proved beyond reasonable doubt that he committed the offence.

Justice Azinge held that the defence raised in the confessional statement of the defendant to the effect that he lost all sense of reasoning after a native doctor laid hands on him and directed him to have sex with any woman he saw was untenable and an afterthought. 

He described the defendant as a paedophile, whose conduct in raping his own four-year-old child was callous, animalistic, barbaric and against the laws of God. 

She stated that the society needed to be protected from persons like the defendant who prey on children.

The court thereafter sentenced the defendant to life imprisonment. 

Speaking to newsman after the judgement, P.U. Akamagwuna said that the State Ministry of Justice will continue to aggressively prosecute all sex-related offenders in line with the Ministry’s zero tolerance policy towards such heinous crimes.

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