An Upper Area Court in Gwagwalada on Friday sentenced a 23-year-old man, Sule Adamu to nine?months imprisonment for raping a seven-year-old girl.?
The Judge, Alhaji Babangida Hassan, ordered that the?convict should,?however,?serve the first six month in jail, but gave him an option of N15,000 fine for the last three months.
The police Prosecutor, Insp. Martha Paul, had told the court that the convict was a neighbour to the victim and that the incident happened on July 8.
Paul said the convict was arrested on July 10, following complaint lodged in at Gwagwalada Police Station by one Dennis Bulus, the father of the victim.
The prosecutor said Bulus got knowledge of the incident following complaint of injury in the private part of his daughter and change in her movement steps.
She said the convict was arraigned on one count charge of rape of a minor and the convict pleaded guilty to the charge.
Adamu had begged the court for leniency adding that the offence had already been committed.
Hassan, therefore, sentenced him to six months imprisonment without option of fine and another three months imprisonment with an option of N15,000 fine. (NAN)