A 42 years old man has been arrested by the Ogun State Police Command for allegedly raping his 16-year-old housemaid. The incident happened at the family’s house at the Government Reservation Area (GRA),Ibara, Abeokuta, the state capital. The Ogun police spokesperson, Abimbola Oyeyemi, who confirmed the incident on Sunday, said the suspect, Abiodun Amosun, a […]
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The police in Benin have arrested and paraded a man whose name was given as Friday Moses, for allegedly defiling and impregnating his 13-year-old daughter. Moses who hails from Cross River State, but resides in Edo, was alleged to have been having carnal knowledge of his daughter when she was seven years old. He was […]
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A medical expert on Friday told an Ikeja Domestic Violence and Sexual Offences Court that her findings revealed that the two-year and 11-month old pupil of Chrisland School was raped. Oluwatoyin Olayioye was testifying before Justice Sybil Nwaka at the resumed trial of Adegboyega Adenekan, the school supervisor who allegedly raped the child. The witness, […]
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A Warri South Magistrates’ Court has remanded a 73-year-old man, Joseph Umuluku, over alleged rape. Magistrate E. O Bakpa-Arukpere ordered the accused to be remanded at the Okere prisons, Warri, while awaiting legal advice from the Office of the Directorate of Public Prosecution. The accused, who is said to be a native doctor, was alleged […]
Continue ReadingA verdict is expected at the end of this month in the trial of 16 members of a mostly female network of Nigerian human traffickers operating forced prostitution rings in France. The traffickers went on trial last week at the high court of Paris, facing their accusers as the trafficked women testified to being lied […]
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A 65-year-old man, Lawal Angala, and his son, Isah, 19 have been remanded in prison for allegedly raping their neighbour’s nine-year-old daughter. The suspects committed the crime on May 2, 2018 at Safana in Katsina state. The pair was said to have lured the victim into their apartment before taking turns to rape her. Shamsiya […]
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Fourteen men have been arrested by the police on Saturday after a teenager was raped and burned alive at her home in eastern India, in the latest case of sexual violence in the country. The 16-year-old was abducted from her home when her family was away to attend a wedding and raped in a forested […]
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One Mr. Lucky Ayosin, has been sentenced to life imprisonment by an Ekiti State High Court sitting in Ado-Ekiti for impregnating his daughter after raping her several times. Justice John Adeyeye also sentenced him to 10 years’ imprisonment concurrently after finding him guilty of attempted murder of his son, Ilesanmi, who caught him having sex […]
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Child X, the pupil allegedly defiled by Adegboyega Adenekan, a 47-year-old Chrisland School supervisor, on Thursday testified at an Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence court in Lagos and confirmed that she was abused. Child X, who is now four-years-old, was two years and 11-months at the time the alleged defilement occurred serially in 2016 […]
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South Sudan civilians had their eyes gouged out, were castrated and were forced to rape each other by the country’s warring sides, according to UN rights investigators. The investigators collected evidence against more than 40 senior military figures. The UN Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan on Friday presented information pointing to crimes against […]
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