A Karmo Grade 1 Area Court,
sitting in Abuja, has sentenced one Audu Alhassan to five months imprisonment
for bathing a young girl with hot oil on Thursday.
Judge Alhaji Abubakar Sadiq, who
convicted Alhassan, said “he should learn to control his temper.”
Sadiq, who advised the convict to
desist from committing crimes in the future, also said that the sentence would
serve as deterrent to other would be offenders.
Alhassan, who resides at Karmo
village, was convicted on a 2-count charge of criminal intimidation and causing
hurt.
The convict, who pleaded guilty
to the charge, begged the court to temper justice with mercy, saying that he
did not know what came over him.
The Prosecutor, Florence
Avhioboh, had told the court that the victim’s mother, Mrs Safiya Mohammed,
reported the matter at the Karmo Police Station on October 16.
Avhioboh said the complainant
said she sent her daughter to dispose waste at the refuse dump, when the
convict started intimidating her.
The convict, who was said to have
threatened to kill the victim and her entire family, made good his threat and
poured hot groundnut oil on the girl.
Avhioboh said during police
investigation the convict confessed to the crime.
The prosecutor said the offence
contravened Sections 397 and 253 of the Penal Code.
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