A teenager, Adeola Saheed, has been sentenced to 18 months imprisonment over failed attempt to rape a 35-year old married woman while pretending to be pursuing a thief in her house in Ogun State.
P.M.EXPRESS reports that it was the judgment of the Presiding Magistrate,
Mrs. O.O. Odumosu of the Abeokuta Magistrate Court, who found him guilty and sentenced accordingly.
The convict, who resides in the Brewery area of Abeokuta, was charged for conspiracy, indecent assault and attempt to rape under the Criminal Law of the State.
The Magistrate, Mrs. Odumosu, ruled that the prosecution proved its case beyond reasonable doubt that the defendant was guilty as charged and sentenced Saheed to six months imprisonment for each of the three counts, with an option of N300,000 fine.
She however, said the jail term should run concurrently.
Earlier during the trial, the prosecutor, ASP Olakunle Shonibare, told the Court that the defendant committed the offence on 12th October, 2023, at about 12:30 pm, at Olomore Housing Estate in Abeokuta.
Supol Shonibare said that that the defendant conspired with one other now at large to commit the offence.
He explained that the defendant ran into the complainant’s compound with a plank and screw driver, pretending to be chasing a thief.
“When he got to the compound, he saw the complainant washing clothes outside her house and asked if she saw anyone that ran into her compound and if she was the only one in the compound.”
“The complainant, on replying the convict, said that she was the only one in the compound and that she did not see any thief run into her compound.
When she picked up her phone and tried calling her husband, the convict attacked her.”
“Immediately, the convict attacked her with the plank he was holding, held her neck, and tore her cloth, with an attempt to rape her, but fortunately the husband to the complainant came to her rescue,” he said.
The offence contravened Sections 516, 360, and 359 of the Criminal Code, Laws of Ogun, 2006, which attracts several years of imprisonment.