The Ikeja Domestic Violence and Sexual Offences Court has sentenced a dismissed policeman, Mohammed Alidu, to life imprisonment for defiling a nine-year-old schoolgirl in a barrack.

In her judgement on Monday, Justice Abiola Soladoye, held that Mr Alidu was a disgrace to the police for failing to uphold the law and order.

Mrs Soladoye held that the prosecution had convincingly proved the charge of defilement against the disgraced policeman beyond any reasonable doubt, and that the medical evidence fully corroborated the survivors’ evidence.

“The vivid and oral testimony of the survivor satisfies the court that the prosecution has proved every inch of the ingredients.

“It is most chilling. The defendant is hereby sentenced to life imprisonment without the option of a fine. He should have his name entered in the Sex Offenders Register of the Lagos State Government,” the judge held.

Four witnesses testified against Mr Alidu in the trial. The prosecution team said Mr Alidu committed the offence on June 29, 2018, on Makinde Police Barracks Road, Mafoluku, Oshodi.

The prosecution said that Mr Alidu grabbed the survivor into a wooden house on her way to school and defiled her.

They submitted that the defendant was apprehended after the survivor reported the case at the police station.

The prosecutors said the defendant confessed to defiling the survivor, blaming it on the devil but later denied it as an afterthought.

(NAN)