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A Justice of the Special Offenses Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos State sentenced a man to life imprisonment for sexually assaulting an eleven-year-old girl.
Giving details of the incident, the victim said the defendant, inserted his finger in her private part, which caused her great pain and made her cry.
She said her mother asked her and her brother to fetch water and some of it poured on her body. While trying to clean her body, their neighbour walked up to her and asked to know what happened to her chest. She replied that she had sustained an injury while fetching water.
He then asked her if she had taken care of her private part, after which he inserted his finger into it. He then asked her to follow him to his room, which she refused.
She said she had to open up about the incident to a neighbor who noticed the strangeness in her behavior.
This led to her mother finding out about the incident and then involving the police, who arrested him.
The justice said, “During cross-examination, the victim was truthful, unambiguous and maintained that the defendant inserted his finger in her vagina despite the fact that she struggled with him.”
