55-year old sentenced to life imprisonment over sexual abuse of child in Niger

A 55 year old Yau Ibrahim is to spend the rest part of his life in Correctional Centre after he was found guilty by a Minna Senior Magistrate court Angwan Daji of unlawful sexual intercourse with a child.

The presiding senior Magistrate Hafsat Abdullahi Bawa Wuse who passed the sentence on the convict averred that the action of the convict has caused an indelible stigma on the little girl.

Yau Ibrahim was earlier arraigned before the court on the 15 August 2023, for having unlawful sexual intercourse with a six year old girl whom he effected with a sexually transmitted disease.

The police Prosecutor Inspector Aliyu Yakubu Kuta had called two witnesses during trial who testified before the court. The prosecuting witness one and two also testified and gave the vivid pictures of how the convict sexually abused the little girl.

Two exhibits were tendered during the trial which include the confessional statement of the convict and medical report from Rayuwal sexual reference centre Police clinic in Minna and the police Prosecutor closed his case.

The Presiding Senior Magistrate Hafsat Abdullahi Bawa Wuse found him guilty on one count charge of unlawful sexual intercourse with a child punishable under section 26 (2) of the child right law 2021 as amended and she convicted him accordingly.

The convict had pleaded for leniency but the Senior Magistrate asserted that considering the magnitude of the offence committed by the convict, he deserves no any leniency from the court.

” The victim status of health as confessed by the convict himself who confessed as contained in the medical report and the stigma the victim will carry for life as a result of the convict action.

“The court hereby sentence you Ibrahim Yau to imprisonment for life for the offence of unlawful sexual intercourse with a child punishable under 2021 as amended” she ruled.

The senior Magistrate Hafsat Abdullahi Bawa Wuse, is the first Magistrate court that invocked the full wrath of life jail on rapist in Niger state.