Farmer bags 10 years for raping teenage hawker

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A Katsina State High Court in Malumfashi on Friday sentenced a 28-year-old farmer, Yusuf Umar, to 10 years imprisonment for raping 13-year-old hawker.

The trial judge, Justice Abbas Bawale, convicted Umar after he was found guilty of unlawfully having carnal knowledge of one Salima Nuhu of the same address on April 13, 2014.

Umar is from Ketare village in Kankara Local Government Area of Katsina State.

Delivering judgment, Bawale said the prosecution had successfully established the charge beyond reasonable doubt as required by law.

The judge, however, said he had taken into the consideration the ill health of the convict, being a cancer patient in his judgment.

He said the punishment for the offence under section 283 of the penal code law attracted a maximum sentence of life imprisonment.

The judge said the lead prosecution Counsel, Mr Aminu Garba, had led four witnesses and three exhibits, including the medical report on the victim.

He sentenced the convict to 10 years imprisonment without option of fine to serve as deterrent to others.

The convict, who was not represented by a counsel, defended himself during the trial.

The convict had lured the 13-year-old into his house on the pretext of buying mangos from her and forcefully had sexual intercourse with her.

The case was first mentioned on Dec. 17, 2015.

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