A Delta State High Court sitting at Warri Judicial
Division has sentenced a 29 year old welder, Obor Omodavwejie to 15 years
imprisonment with hard labour for raping a 16 year old girl.
The court while expressing satisfaction that
prosecution was able to prove its case against the accused, pronounced Obor
Omodavwejie guilty of the one count charge of rape and sentenced him to 15
years behind bars.
The court in its verdict, held that from the evidence adduced and after
watching the demeanor of the victim,
believed her evidence as the pains on the victim’s face while testifying
were obvious.
Prosecution called three witnesses including the IPO
and medical doctor that examined her.
Though the accused made confessional statement, he
claimed that the victim consented to the sexual Intercourse.
Prosecution had told the court that on or about the
1st day of October, 2014 at Edjeba, within the Warri Judicial Division had
deceived the victim (name withheld) by sending her on an errand for an
undisclosed item but when she brought the said item, the accused and his
friend, now at large, overpowered her and dragged her inside their apartment
and had canal knowledge of her without her consent.
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