A Bayelsa State High Court sitting in Yenagoa has sentenced a 41-year-old man, Baridapsi Needam, to 14-year imprisonment for raping and impregnating his daughter.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the victim gave birth to a baby girl in pendency of the trial.
The Bayelsa State’s Commissioner for Justice and Attorney-General, Mr Briyal Dambo, in the suit numbered YHC/14C/2022, charged the accused with the offence of rape contrary to Section 1(1) of the Violence Against Persons (Prohibition) Law of Bayelsa State, 2021.
Pere Amanda Egbuson, Prosecuting Counsel, Bayelsa Ministry of Justice, told the court that investigations revealed that the accused, Needam, started abusing his daughter when she was seven year-old.
Egbuson said Needam defiled the daughter by inserting his fingers into her private part before having carnal knowledge of her in 2020 when she got pregnant.
The Presiding Judge, Justice D.E. Adokeme, while delivering judgement, stated that the prosecution led…
Source: Leadership Newspaper
