{"id":426,"date":"2024-07-24T15:03:46","date_gmt":"2024-07-24T15:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/?p=426"},"modified":"2024-07-24T15:03:46","modified_gmt":"2024-07-24T15:03:46","slug":"three-sentenced-to-life-imprisonment-for-raping-deaf-woman-in-kebbi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/zh\/three-sentenced-to-life-imprisonment-for-raping-deaf-woman-in-kebbi\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Sentenced To Life Imprisonment For Raping Deaf Woman In Kebbi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Justice of the Kebbi High Court, Shamsudeen Jafar, on Tuesday sentenced\u00a0 three men from the village of Zaromawa, Amiru San, Aliyu Umar and Bashar Dan-Inno to life imprisonment for raping an 18-year-old Kurdish woman in Warari state.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The convicts were charged under Sections 259 and 60 of the Penal Code of Kebbi State 2021 on two counts of conspiracy and rape, according to PUNCH Metro.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The court heard that the acts were committed at\u00a0 Zaromawa village in Warari, Gwandu Local Government\u00a0 of the state.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to\u00a0 prosecutor Faridah Muhammad, the three accused raped the victim while she was sleeping.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe defendants broke into the victim\u2019s house while she was asleep and forcefully had carnal knowledge of her. They choked her with a thick piece of cloth and tied her hands with a rope before having carnal knowledge of her one by one,\u201d she said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The judge stated that the prosecution had proved all the evidence of carnal knowledge of the victim.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI am of the firm view that all the defendants conspired in perpetrating the act. Meanwhile, the convicts conspired and raped the victim, who is an 18-year-old deaf woman, at her husband\u2019s residence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAll ingredients needed to establish a criminal conspiracy to commit rape were established beyond reasonable doubt by the prosecution. The court has no option but to act upon the evidence before it,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Delivering his judgment, the judge found the defendants guilty as charged.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cHaving found you guilty of the charge, you Amiru Sani, Aliyu Umar, and Bashar Dan-Inno are hereby sentenced to life imprisonment for finding all of you guilty under sections 259 and 60 of Kebbi State Penal Code Law, 2021,\u201d he declared.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Source: PUNCH Online\u00a0<\/b><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Justice of the Kebbi High Court, Shamsudeen Jafar, on Tuesday sentenced\u00a0 three men from the village of Zaromawa, Amiru San, Aliyu Umar and Bashar Dan-Inno to life imprisonment for raping&hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":123,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/123"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}