An
Osun State High Court sitting in Ilesa has sentenced a septuagenarian,
Chief Moses Adeniyi, to seven years imprisonment for raping two teenage
pupils.
The judgment is contained in a statement
issued by the Information Officer of the Osun State Ministry of
Justice, Mr. Opeyemi Bello, in Osogbo on Thursday.
Adeniyi, who is the Loja, Araromi Otokobo was arraigned in court on Mach 28 2011 was charged with rape and indecent assault.
The prosecution team from the Ministry
of Justice: Tijani Adekilekun, who appeared along with Folasade Adekomi
told the court that the convict offered a free ride to the girls, who
were coming back from school and he drove them to his hotel where he
raped the two teenagers one after the other.
They told the court that the two
offences were contrary to the provisions of Sections 358 and 360
Criminal Code Cap 34 vol.11 Laws of Osun State.
Justice Kudirat Akano held that the
prosecution counsels proved beyond reasonable doubt that Adeniyi
unlawfully had carnal knowledge of the two girls and thereafter
sentenced him to seven years imprisonment.
The statement explained further that
Adeniyi, who was a former neighbour of the victims raped the two girls
aged 13 and 14 who are pupils of St.Margaret Girls School Ilesa in May
2010.
Instead of taking them to their
destination, Adeniyi was said to have taken them to his hotel and took
them inside one of the hotel rooms where he raoed them and warned them
not to shout or tell anybody about it.
After defiling them, he was said to have
wiped their private parts with a piece of white cloth and warned them
against telling anyone what happened to them. He was said to have
threatened them that anyone who disclosed his action would die.
But one of the parents of the victims
was sad to have been told that her daughter was given a free ride by a
man and she went to inquire from the school who the man was.
The girls were said to be afraid but refused to disclose what Adeniyi did to them for fear of death.
They were said to be given an assurance
by their teachers that nothing would happen to them if they told them
what happened before they narrated their ordeal.
credit: omojuwa.com
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