Man sexually exploits girl, 7, jailed four years
A 27-year-old man, Sylvanus Ubong Sunday, has been
sentenced to two years imprisonment for sexually exploiting a
seven-year-old girl.
Sunday was convicted by a Federal High Court sitting in Uyo,
Akwa Ibom State for human trafficking offences.
The convict, from Ibesikpo Asutan Local Government Area of
Akwa Ibom State, was arrested by the National Agency for the
Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) in November 2017
following a report from a mother that Sunday was sexually
exploiting her seven years’ old daughter.
Head, Press and Public Relations Unit, NAPTIP, Nneka Aniagoh,
said: “Preliminary investigations revealed that he was also
sexually abusing another girl, aged 10 and he was subsequently
arraigned on a two-count charge of sexually exploiting the two
girls aged seven and 10, a punishable offence under Section
16(1) of the Trafficking in Persons (Prohibition) Enforcement and
Administration Act, 2015.”
Delivering the judgement, the presiding judge, Justice I. M. Sani,
told the defendant that having listened to both counsel, the court
found him guilty and thereafter sentenced him to two years
imprisonment on each charge, without any option of fine.
However, the sentences are to run concurrently beginning from
the day of his arrest, which was November 8, 2017.
The Director-General of NAPTIP, Julie Okah-Donli, said that in as
much as she would love to see child exploiters bag stiffer
sentences, she still expressed her gladness that justice was
served.
She urged members of the public to report such cases of child
exploitation to NAPTIP.
Okah-Donli added that keeping quiet or hiding the culprits would
only endanger the lives of more children.
sentenced to two years imprisonment for sexually exploiting a
seven-year-old girl.
Akwa Ibom State for human trafficking offences.
The convict, from Ibesikpo Asutan Local Government Area of
Akwa Ibom State, was arrested by the National Agency for the
Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) in November 2017
following a report from a mother that Sunday was sexually
exploiting her seven years’ old daughter.
Head, Press and Public Relations Unit, NAPTIP, Nneka Aniagoh,
said: “Preliminary investigations revealed that he was also
sexually abusing another girl, aged 10 and he was subsequently
arraigned on a two-count charge of sexually exploiting the two
girls aged seven and 10, a punishable offence under Section
16(1) of the Trafficking in Persons (Prohibition) Enforcement and
Administration Act, 2015.”
Delivering the judgement, the presiding judge, Justice I. M. Sani,
told the defendant that having listened to both counsel, the court
found him guilty and thereafter sentenced him to two years
imprisonment on each charge, without any option of fine.
However, the sentences are to run concurrently beginning from
the day of his arrest, which was November 8, 2017.
The Director-General of NAPTIP, Julie Okah-Donli, said that in as
much as she would love to see child exploiters bag stiffer
sentences, she still expressed her gladness that justice was
served.
She urged members of the public to report such cases of child
exploitation to NAPTIP.
Okah-Donli added that keeping quiet or hiding the culprits would
only endanger the lives of more children.
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