One 20-year old man who is identified as Yashua’u Shehu of Atakwanyo village in Kware LGA of Sokoto State has been convicted and sentenced to 10-years imprisonment for raping a 3 years old girl in Sokoto without option of fine.
The convicted is also handed a five hundred thousand (500,000.00) naira fine as compensation to the survivor.
Delivering his judgment at the Federal High Court, Sokoto, Justice James Kolawole Omotosho decried that incidences of sexual exploitation, especially of minors has become disturbingly rampant in the north, hence, appealing to parents and governments at all levels to rise up in defense of these vulnerable children.
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