A 52-year-old native doctor, Jacob Alonge, has been sentenced to
21 years imprisonment without option of fine for raping and impregnating his
teenage daughter.
The
judgement was delivered in a Chief Magistrates’ Court in Evboriaria, Benin on
Thursday.
The native doctor was convicted by the Chief Magistrate, Dorothy
Adamaigbo, on a three-count charge of repeated sexual assault, fetish wrap of
the girl’s pubic hair, raping and impregnating her.
The
prosecution had earlier told the court that the convict committed the offence
in Ososo Village, Akoko-Edo Local Government in Edo.
The defendant was also said to have severally raped the
17-year-old girl, impregnated her, and procured abortion for her and shaved the
hair in her private parts.
The
girl was said to have become pregnant a second time but the public got wind of
the matter and he was subsequently arrested by the police and arraigned in
court.
According
to the prosecutor, the pregnant girl, however, died along with four others in
an accident along Benin-Auchi highway, while travelling from Ososo to Benin on
their way to the court.
According
to the prosecutor, the girl’s uncle, two workers of a Non-Governmental
Organisation, Brave Heart Initiative,
helping the girl with the case, the cab driver and the girl had died in motor
accident.
The
prosecutor said that after learning of the auto crash, Mr Alonge who had
earlier pleaded guilty to the counts against him and was about to be sentenced,
changed his plea on the day he learnt that his daughter and the others had
died.
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