A Senior Magistrate Court sentenced Gbenga Fajuyi, a Police Inspector with the Niger State Police Command, to 22 years in the Minna Correctional Center for allegedly impregnating his 13-year-old biological daughter.
The baby that his daughter delivered is also said to have been strangled and killed by Fajuyi.
According to the Police First Information Report, marked SMC/MN, CR/06/2023, Gbenga Fajuyi, age 47, lured his biological daughter, an SS1 student at Government Day Secondary School Sabon-Wuse, into his room and forcefully had s*xual intercourse with her at some point in 2019. This occurred in the Ungwan Nasarawa area of Tafa LG.
“As a result, she was put into a family way and delivered a baby girl, and you warned her that if she told anybody, you would kill her.”
During the police Investigation, you, Gbenga Fajuyi, confessed to the commission of the offense. After delivery, you took the newborn baby to a nearby river and strangled the baby to death”.
Inspector Lawrence Owette, the police prosecutor, told the court that the three counts of the charge violated Section 18 (2) of the 2010 Niger State Child Right Law, Section 390 25 (3), and Section 397 B of the penal code.
The suspect entered a plea of guilty when the accusations were read to him by Christy Barau, the presiding senior magistrate.
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However, the court insisted that due to the serious nature of the offense, and asked the police prosecutor to prove his case and bring along his witnesses and evidence to enable the court to give him the harshest penalty possible for the crimes he committed.
Hence, the prosecutor called the investigating police officer, who invited both the mother of the girl, and the girl, and they claimed the father had canal knowledge of his daughter from age 12 until she got pregnant at the age of 13.
Senior Magistrate Christy Barau, the court’s presiding senior magistrate, handed down the verdict and characterized the defendant as a monster who turned the little girl into an adult by acting as a law enforcement official who was supposed to protect her.
She then announced that he would serve the following 22 years in prison without the possibility of receiving a fine and that the sentence would run consecutively.