An Ekiti Atmosphere Prime Court docket, Ado Ekiti Category on Tuesday sentenced two males, Anu Olaniyi and Abidemi Alibaloye, to 2 years imprisonment each and every for gang-raping a 13-year-old woman.
The convicts, who dedicated the offences on December 28, 2020, had been arraigned in court docket at the fees of conspiracy and gang-rape.
All over the listening to, the sufferer informed the court docket, “I was sent on an errand on December 28, 2020, when one of the convicts intercepted me and purposely directed me to his friend’s place where they both forcibly had carnal knowledge of me one after the other.”
The sufferer, who mentioned she went house teary-eyed and knowledgeable her mom of what had came about, mentioned, “I was able to recognise both convicts and they were later arrested and charged to court.”
The Director of Population Prosecutions, Julius Ajibare, who prosecuted the case for the Ekiti Atmosphere Executive, mentioned the offences dedicated had been “contrary to Section 421 of the Criminal Law of Ekiti State, 2021 and Section 2(2)(c) of the Ekiti State Gender-Based Violence (Prohibition) (First Amendment) Law, 2020.”
Ajibare referred to as 4 observers and tendered seven shows in aid of his case.
However the defendants, who spoke via their suggest, Oluwafemi Alonge, gave proof of their defence and referred to as negative observers.
Within the knowledge, Justice Adekunle Adeleye held that “the prosecution proved the offence of gang-rape and conspiracy against the defendants beyond reasonable doubt.”
The pass judgement on in consequence convicted the defendants and sentenced each and every of them to time imprisonment for gang-rape and two years imprisonment for conspiracy.