Ikeja High Court on Tuesday sentenced Lawal Kamoru to 13 years’ imprisonment, the 22-year-old baker, led a four-man gang that violated a 14-year-old.
Justice Raliatu Adebiyi found Kamoru guilty and convicted him on a one-count charge of defilement, saying that the age of the victim and the psychological trauma she experienced were considered while sentencing the baker.
The State counsel, Ahmed Muili, told the court that the convict and three others (now at large) took turns to defile the teenager in an uncompleted building on Feb. 1, 2014, on Oluwanisola Street, Ilage, Bariga, Lagos State.
NAN reports that the victim while giving evidence during the trial, said that she and her younger sister (name withheld), were on their way home from a church vigil at 5.00a.m. when the crime occurred.
She added that she could not recollect how she left the uncompleted building but that she woke up later in the hospital after spending two days on a sick bed.
(NAN)