Onozure Dania A 72-year-old man, David Jackson, on Monday, was sentenced to life imprisonment by Justice Abiola Soladoye of the Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court Ikeja, Lagos State, for defiling his neighbour’s seven-year-old daughter. The judge sentenced the septuagenarian, a security guard after she held that the prosecution had proved the three ingredients of defilement against him beyond reasonable doubt. Delivering her judgment, Soladoye held that the victim was seven years old as of the time of the incident but was eight years old when she testified before the court and identified Jackson as a gateman in one of the houses on her street.
She held, “A brother of the survivor sent her on an errand on this day and when she passed and greeted the convict, Jackson, he dragged her inside the room and she shouted but he used his handkerchief to cover her mouth. “The testimony of the survivor was clear, consistent and coherent under cross-examination. “The second prosecution witness was a teacher who identified the survivor as her student and she testified that one of her classmates had reported to her that the survivor was not feeling well and that she was walking in a funnily way.
“The teacher, in her evidence, stated that she made an inquiry and discovered that the survivor was complaining of pains on her private parts and that someone had sexually assaulted her.” Justice Soladoye also said that the teacher invited the survivor’s parents but they did n.
