{"id":142062,"date":"2019-08-08T15:06:11","date_gmt":"2019-08-08T14:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=142062"},"modified":"2019-08-08T15:06:26","modified_gmt":"2019-08-08T14:06:26","slug":"73-year-old-carpenter-sentenced-to-prison-for-defiling-12-year-old-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=142062","title":{"rendered":"73-year-old carpenter sentenced to prison for defiling 12-year-old girl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Enenche-Enenche-Fighting-rape-with-VAR.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">An Upper Area Court sitting in Kasuwan Nama, Jos, on Thursday sentenced a 73-year-old carpenter, Ibrahim Ali, to 10 years\u2019 imprisonment for defiling a 12-year-old girl.<\/p>\n<p>The judge, Mr Lawal Suleiman sentenced Ali, who pleaded guilty to a count charge of defilement.<\/p>\n<p>Suleiman, however, gave the convict an option of N500,000 fine and six months\u2019 imprisonment.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Monday Dabit, the Prosecutor, had earlier on told the court that the defendant lured the girl into his room and forcefully had carnal knowledge of her.<\/p>\n<p>Dabit said that the case was reported on July 2 by one Zainab Said.<\/p>\n<p>The prosecutor said the offence contravened Section 207 of the Penal Code, Law of Northern Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>According to the News Agency of Nigeria, Ali had begged the court for leniency, blaming the crime on the devil.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Upper Area Court sitting in Kasuwan Nama, Jos, on Thursday sentenced a 73-year-old carpenter, Ibrahim Ali, to 10 years\u2019 imprisonment for defiling a 12-year-old girl. The judge, Mr Lawal Suleiman sentenced Ali, who pleaded guilty to a count charge of defilement. Suleiman, however, gave the convict an option of N500,000 fine and six months\u2019 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":131534,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3773,3],"tags":[485,406],"class_list":["post-142062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-news","tag-jos","tag-rape"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=142062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/131534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=142062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=142062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=142062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}