Nigeria: Court sentences man, 47, to life in prison for raping 8-year-old girl — Africa Links 24

for raping an eight-year-old girl.

The Judge, Justice Blessing Egwu, who found the convict guilty of the offence, also ordered him to pay N1 million compensation
to the eight-year survivor.

Egwu held that the penalty would serve as deterrent to those thinking of carrying out such heinous crime in future.

Mr James Ibor, the Principal Counsel of Basic Rights Counsel Initiative, the NGO that secured the conviction, commended the
judgment, saying violence against women and girls must stop.

He…