A court decision in Bayelsa state has sentenced a 21 year old boy to 10 years imprisonment for raping a 5 year old child to death. The rape happened in Akede in 2016 when the accused, Jephthah was 16. It was gathered that after the act, Jephthah dumped the victim’s body in a pond, close to his residence.

Deme Pamosoo, a lawyer and gender advocate who was counsel for the plaintiff made sure that the victim’s body was retrieved and an autopsy conducted on it after which the result was handed over to the ministry of justice and the Director of public prosecution recommended for trial to commence.

Justice E. G Omukoro in his ruling (lawsuit no. SHC)4C/2016) brought down the charge from murder to manslaughter due to the prosecuting counsel’s inability to prove the defendant’s intention to kill the victim.

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