The Lagos State Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court in Ikeja, on Monday, sentenced a security guard, David Jackson, 72, to life imprisonment for d£filing a 7-year-old girl, NAN reports.
Justice Abiola Soladoye sentenced Jackson to life imprisonment and held that the prosecution had proved the three ingredients of d£filement against the convict.
Delivering her judgment, Soladoye held that the survivor was 7-year-old at the time of the incident and during her testimony, identified Jackson, a gateman in one of the houses on her street, as her abuser.
“The testimony of the survivor was clear, consistent and coherent under cross-examination,” he said.
“The second prosecution witness was a teacher who identified that the survivor was her student.
“She testified that one of the survivor’s classmate had reported to her that the survivor was not feeling well and she was walking in a funny way.
“The teacher, in her evidence, said that she made inquiry and discovered that the survivor was complaining of pains in her private part and that someone had sexually assaulted her,” the judge said
Sholadoye also held that the testimony of the survivor’s father was credible and was also corroborated with the evidence of the other two prosecution witnesses
She said that attempts by the convict to deny the charge did not hold waters.
