Man Jailed 4 Years For Impregnating Girlfriend, 16, After Sex In Hotel

MICHAEL AKINOLA 

An Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court has sentenced a man, Onyeka Ubaka, to four years imprisonment for engaging his 16-year old girlfriend in sex in a hotel, which resulted into pregnancy in Lagos State. 

P.M.EXPRESS reports that the Presiding Judge, Justice Rahman Oshodi, sentenced Ubaka to four years imprisonment after he pleaded guilty to an amended two-count charge of indecent treatment of a child and sexual assault.

The convict, Ubaka, was arraigned on 12th January, 2024 for the offence and he pleaded not guilty but changed his plea in a plea bargain agreement to guilty for  indecent treatment of a child and sexual assault by caressing the buttocks of the survivor with his hands.

Justice Oshodi, before delivering the judgment, asked Ubaka if he understood the content of the plea bargain agreement and the obligation of the Court to give maximum sentence and he admitted that he made the plea bargain voluntarily and was satisfied with the advice of his counsel.

The judge, thereafter, found him guilty and convicted accordingly.

In his judgment, Justice Oshodi said that the facts of the case was troubling due to how the convict engaged in a sexual relationship with a 16-year old girl.

“You took her to a bar, purchased yogurt for her, she lost consciousness and later found herself in a hotel room where you had sex with her without her consent.

“The sexual intercourse resulted to pregnancy and child birth. I have considered the plea bargain agreement and document attached to it which stipulates that your father, Mr. Emeka Ubaka, shall be responsible for 30 per cent of the survivor’s educational expenses.

“I have also considered that you will be responsible for the child’s upkeep to the age of eight years. I have also seen the document marked Exhibit C, where your father paid three hundred thousand Naira as hospital expenses to the survivor’s mother.”

Justice Oshodi therefore, sentenced the convict to four years imprisonment and ordered that his name be registered in the Lagos State Sexual Offences Register.

Earlier, the State Counsel, Ms Bukola Okeowo, presenting the facts of the matter, told the court that the survivor had earlier given evidence as prosecution witness one (PW1).

She said that the PW1 narrated that the convict was her boyfriend, adding that he had sex with her multiple times which resulted to pregnancy.