Bricklayer sentenced to life imprisonment for defilement

For defiling his neighbour’s eight-yr-vulnerable daughter in a lavatory, a bricklayer, Azeez Shoderu (a.ok.a Chisco), has been sentenced to lifestyles imprisonment.

Justice Rahman Oshodi of the Lagos Teach Sexual Offences and Home Violence Court, Ikeja, sentenced Shoderu the day gone by after finding him responsible as charged by the declare authorities.

The buy held that the prosecution had sufficiently proven the price of defilement in opposition to him.

The buy held that the defendant’s yarn became inconsistent and that he became fully contented that the prosecution had proven its case previous an inexpensive doubt, based fully totally on the suppose evidence of the survivor and the circumstantial factors of defilement.

“The evidence presented in courtroom in opposition to the convict that the survivor became somewhat one became overwhelming, and that the incident occurred on July 27, 2022, where the defendant had unlawful sexual intercourse with the exiguous one,” he said.

The buy moreover held that the defendant admitted to interacting with the exiguous one on the compound, where he claimed to have asked the exiguous one to bring water to him in the bathroom.

The exiguous one narrated that she went to urinate on the bathroom where the convict thereafter covered her mouth, positioned her on his lap and had a sexual act with her. Nonetheless, the convict denied that the leisure had occurred when taken to the police declare.

When the convict became arraigned on September 29, 2023, he pleaded no longer responsible to the costs.

The buy held that the convict became a squatter at 25 In the past-Hausa Avenue, Ajegunle, Ajeromi Ifelodun, Native Executive Dwelling, Lagos, where he interacted with the exiguous one, and confirmed that he became at a lavatory facility where the survivor became moreover existing.

Justice Oshodi held that the clinical document corroborated the evidence of the survivor, apart from that of the Investigating Police Officer, adding that the clinical physician’s evidence demonstrated that the convict had committed the offence.

The buy, therefore, said that somewhat one who has no longer attained the age of 18 is incapable of consenting to sexual intercourse.

He extra held that the exiguous one supplied eyewitness testimony.

“Her evidence became constant true thru her examination-in-chief that the defendant removed her pants and establish her on his lap.

“The defendant will need to have his title registered in the sexual offence register as maintained by Lagos Teach,” he said.

The buy said that the convict’s circulate had positively inflicted deep psychological wounds that might well per chance buy a lifetime to heal.

Throughout the trial, the prosecution counsel, O.S. Dada, had known as three witnesses and tendered shows in courtroom to camouflage the price in opposition to the convict. On the same time, the defendant testified in his defence.

Nonetheless, in his plea of mercy after the courtroom learned him responsible as charged, the defence counsel told the courtroom that the defendant is a critical-time offender who has learnt a smartly-behaved lesson.

Nonetheless Dada advised the courtroom to condemn the defendant accordingly, that he exploited his space and the victim’s vulnerability to meet his unlawful sexual needs.

“The victim became eight years vulnerable—somewhat one who will need to have been salvage in her house environment,” he said.

After the counsel’s submissions, the buy pronounced the defendant responsible of the offence of defilement and sentenced him to lifestyles imprisonment.