An Ikeja Special Offences Court on Thursday sentenced a 52-year-old man, Akin Isaac, to 21 years’ imprisonment for raping and impregnating his 18-year-old daughter.
Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo sentenced the convict following his April 21 plea bargain application.
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“In view of the guilty plea of the defendant to one count of defilement, I hereby find the defendant guilty as charged,” Taiwo said.
The judge thereafter asked the defendant if he had anything to say, following his conviction.
NAN reports that the convict knelt down in the dock and pleaded for mercy, saying he had an aged mother to look after.
The judge, thereafter, sentenced him to 21 years in prison and added that the sentencing should take effect from June 2020 when he was arrested.
Earlier, the judge had asked the State Counsel, Mrs Omowumi Bajulaye- Bishi if the 21 years plea bargain was good enough for the convict, owing to how emotional the survivor was while she was giving her testimony.
“I remember the survivor clearly. She was weeping right here in the box. Abortion, pregnancy, drugs, beating and all sorts of inhuman treatment meted on her by her father?
“Do you think 21 years is good enough for him,” the judge asked.
The prosecutor said that the defendant had started having unlawful sexual intercourse with his 18-year-old daughter while she was six years old, which resulted in at least one pregnancy.
She also submitted that the defendant attempted to procure an abortion for her and regularly administered drugs to her to prevent pregnancy.(NAN)
