Court Gives Verdict On Dismissed Policeman Who Defiled A kid In Barracks
Faith Ukanwa
May 24, 2022
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An Ikeja Domestic Violence and Sexual Offences Court on Monday sentenced a dismissed policeman, Mohammed Alidu, to life imprisonment for defiling a nine-year-old school girl in a police barracks.
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Justice Abiola Soladoye, in her judgment, held that Alidu was a disgrace to the police because he failed to uphold law and order and went about frolicking with an underage girl.
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The News Agency of Nigeria reported that Soladoye held that the prosecution had convincingly proved the charge of defilement against the convict beyond any reasonable doubt.
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She said the survivors' evidence was fully corroborated by the medical evidence.
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"The evidence of the survivor is the most credible evidence in identifying the perpetrator.
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"The vivid and oral testimony of the survivor satisfies the court that prosecution has proved every inch of the ingredients.
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"He is a disgrace to the entire police because he failed to uphold law and order as he went on a frolic of his own by engaging in a bizarre and irresponsible behaviour turning the barracks into a sex den.
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"It is most chilling. The defendant is hereby sentenced to life imprisonment without the option of a fine.
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"He should have his name entered in the Sex Offenders Register of the Lagos State Government,ÔÇØ the judge added.
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NAN reported that four witnesses testified against Alidu in the trial.
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According to the prosecution team, Mr Olusola Soneye, Mrs Olufunke Adegoke and Ms Abimbola Abolade, Alidu committed the offence on June 29, 2018 on Makinde Police Barracks Road, Mafoluku, Oshodi.
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The prosecution said Alidu grabbed the survivor into a wooden house on her way to school and defiled her.
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They submitted that the defendant was apprehended after the survivor reported the case at a police station.
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The prosecutors said the defendant confessed to defiling the survivor, blaming it on the devil, but later denied it as an afterthought.
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The police said the offence contravened Section 137 of the Criminal Laws of Lagos State, 2015.
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— Faith Ukanwa