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…father to spend 14 years in jail for defiling, impregnating daughter The Edo State Government’s effort to rid the state of paedophiles in line with the enforcement of the Child Rights Act is yielding positive results, as the Evbuoriaria Magistrate Court in Benin City, Edo State has sentenced six persons to various jail terms for defiling minors. The Chief Magistrate, J. O. Ejale, sentenced Friday Moses, a commercial motorcycle operator, to 14 years in prison with hard labour, without the option of fine, for defiling and impregnating his 13-year-old daughter. Moses, 42, who hails from Cross River State but resides in Edo State, was charged for defiling his daughter since she lost her mother five years ago. The Magistrate said Moses’ sentence is to serve as a lesson to the convict as well other child molesters. The victim is a Primary 6 pupil, who is five months and two weeks pregnant, the first among three children. She is presently in the protective custody of the Ministry of Women Af...

...self acclaimed seminarian and a driver also bagged jail term  By Ehis Agugu A commercial motorcycle operator has bagged a fourteen-year jail term with hard labour for defiling and impregnating his 13-year-old daughter. The convict, Friday Moses, a 42-year-old man, who hails from Cross River State but resides in Edo, has been having unlawful carnal knowledge of his biological daughter since she lost her mother five years ago. The Evbuoriaria Magistrate Court, Benin on Friday, October 5, 2018, sentenced Friday Moses, a commercial motorcycle operator to 14 years in prison for forcefully having unlawful carnal knowledge with his own daughter thereby impregnated the minor. The family court magistrate, who did not give the convict an option to pay a fine, but sentenced him with hard labour stated that the sentence will serve as a lesson to the convict as well as deterrent to others who defile children and those who might intend to engage in such act in the future. The victim, a primar...