A 32 year-old security watch, Kenechukwu Okonkwo was on Friday sentenced to 14 years detainment for assaulting a 29-year-old virgin.
Equity Oluwatoyin Ipaye while passing the sentence at an Ikeja High Court, Lagos, portrayed assault as a demonstration of extraordinary viciousness' against ladies.
Ipaye said that there ought to be zero resistance to any type of brutality against ladies and defenseless individuals from the general public.
"I thusly sentence you, Kenechukwu Okonkwo, to 14 years detainment to begin from today March 24, 2017," she said.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Okonkwo was summoned in court on July 14, 2015 on a charge of assault which is in opposition to Section 258 (1) of the Criminal Law of Lagos State 2011.
Amid the trial, the indictment drove by Adeniji said that Okonkwo conferred the offense on Dec. 27, 2013 in his one-bedroomed flat situated in Ketu Lagos.
Adeniji stated: "The complainant was a 29-year-old sales representative (name withheld) who was a virgin.
"She progressed toward becoming companions with Okonkwo who was a security protect working at a grocery store where she provided merchandise.
"She was encountering convenience issues and was going to be removed from her home.
"The complainant nonetheless, trusted in Okonkwo about her issue and he offered to keep some of her property in his flat.
"She came to review his flat which was a 'confront me I confront you,' questioning the reasonableness of his condo and when she swung to leave, Okonkwo obstructed her exit and commandingly dragged her from the passage into his loft.
"She was shouting and imploring him in Igbo dialect and he reacted saying that 'you have been languishing me over too long," he said.
The prosecutor said the convict be that as it may, choked her with wrapper to smother her shout and had commanding sex with of her in his room.
"The clamor and upheaval in the flat pulled in Okonkwo's co-inhabitant who came to intercede without much of any result.
"It was the point at which the landowner thumped on Okonkwo's way to enquire about the clamor that the complainant could get away," Adeniji said.
However Okonkwo, in his declaration amid the trial, guaranteed that the sex amongst him and the complainant was consensual.
He said that he wanted to wed her and she more often than not went by him at his loft on Sundays with individuals from her congregation.
"On that game changing day, I went to a naming service and keeping in mind that I was leaving the function, I got a telephone call from the complainant saying that she was at my home.
"I returned home and she gathered the sack of immaculate water I was conveying and asked me what I needed to eat and I disclosed to her I needed to eat Indomie.
"She changed into a couple of tights from her pants to make the Indomie and I played a grown-up motion picture which we observed together while we ate.
"She made me guarantee that I will wed her and from there on, we had intercourse," he said.
In any case, when he was being interviewed by Adeniji, Okonkwo conceded, in spite of his declaration, that the complainant went by him surprisingly upon the arrival of the occurrence.
Equity Ipaye, in sentencing Okonkwo, noted irregularities in his declaration.
She stated: "The litigant is not just efficient with reality, he ought not be accepted.
"There were irregularities in his declarations and his longstanding companion who affirmed for his benefit as DW2, couldn't knew her as his better half.
"She was at danger of having her effects tossed out of where she was staying and he exploited her helpless state on the night of Dec. 27, 2013.
"Subsequent to hearing and watching the respondent and the complainant give their declarations, her record is more in accordance with portrayal of her settlement issue.
"Her visit to the litigant was not a social visit but rather to build up the appropriateness of his home to keep some of her possessions at the time.
"She is of an extremely thin form and could have been effortlessly overwhelmed by the respondent and her record was more in accordance with the record of the restorative specialists who affirmed in the interest of the arraignment," Ipaye said.
NAN reports that four witnesses affirmed in the interest of the indictment — the complainant, the exploring cop and two medicinal specialists.
Taking note of the effect of the restorative proof on her conviction of Okonkwo for the wrongdoing, Ipaye stated: "Infiltration, however slight, constitutes the offense of assault.
"I have most likely about the penile infiltration, as the declaration of the complainant was clear, brief and unequivocal.
"PW3, Dr Oluwaseun Osungbusi, is a therapeutic specialist with the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH). He came to affirm in the interest of his partner, Dr Justina Oyemarin, who took care of the complainant on the night of the claimed assault.
"He and Oyemarin both worked at the Ikosi Primary Health Center where the complainant looked for treatment after the charged assault.
"Oyemarin's report noticed that the complainant had a broken hymen, had wounds on her body and had substantial vaginal draining and release.
"PW4 was Dr Joseph Onwoh, a restorative specialist with more than 30 years of involvement in gynecology.
"In his declaration, he told the court that when the complainant was alluded to him, she was draining and had a worn out, broken hymen.
"He guided her and exhorted all her bloodstained clothing as proof in the event that the matter goes to court.
"He can be viewed as a specialist on call who saw the complainant in her condition of pain and his declaration was in accordance with the test outcomes displayed by Osungbusi," she said.
NAN reports that Mr Worer Obuagbaka, advice to the convict, in his request for benevolence, told the court that Okonkwo was a first time guilty party and was apologetic.
"The convict is a first time guilty party and the main child of his family; he lost his mom a year ago to cervical disease and has been in care since December 2013.
"Amid this period, he has learnt his lesson, I beg the court to pass a light sentence on the convict and temper equity with kindness," Obuagbaka said.
Be that as it may, the prosecutor, Mr Kazeem Adeniji, the Lagos State Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, lauded the judgment.
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