Sunday George, 26, an auto mechanic who goes by the moniker “rewire,” was found guilty of defiling his neighbour’s 12-year-old daughter and was given a life sentence on Thursday by an Ikeja Se*ual Offenses and Domestic Violence Court.
After determining George was guilty of the crime of defiling a minor, the court delivered the verdict.
According to Justice Abiola Soladoye, the prosecution had established beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant had committed the crime of defilement.
She claimed that the prosecution had established the elements of defilement—namely, that the kid was a minor, that the defendant had se* with her, and that the child’s permission is irrelevant—in each case.
The judge alleged that the defendant routinely had se* with the youngster whenever he summoned her to come to watch a film on his phone in his room.
The convict was described by Soladoye as a compulsive liar and an irresponsible adult whose evidence was an afterthought since it lacked credibility. She says that the victim’s unequivocal testimony had satisfied the court.
After carefully examining the facts in front of the court, the judge pronounced, “The defendant is hereby found guilty and sentenced to life imprisonment.”
She continued by saying that the Lagos State Government’s Se*ual Offenders Register should also include his name.
The defendant testified as the only witness in the trial while the state prosecution team, Mr. Olusola Soneye, and Mrs. Olufunke Adegoke, called two witnesses against him.