Alleged rape of a 6-year-old girl: court sets man free

An FCT High Court on Monday discharged and acquitted 40-year-old, Sunday Ogbonna, of Jabi, Abuja, accused of allegedly raping a six-year-old girl.

Ogbonna was arraigned on Feb. 13, 2006, accused of rape, which contravened Section 283 of the Penal Code.

He was alleged to have lured the girl to a secret place at the Jabi Motor Park on Nov. 31, 2005 and forcibly had carnal knowledge of her.

Delivering judgment, Justice Abubakar Talba said there was no consistency in the evidence of the witnesses produced by the prosecution.

Talba said further that the three prosecution witnesses contradicted themselves and could not be relied on, adding that the prosecution had failed to establish a case against the accused.

He added that there was no medical eveidence tendered in the case.

“Consequent upon the above findings, I hereby discharge and acquit the accused,” he said.

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Hospital staff accused of attempting to rape patient’s relative

A staff of the Federal Medical Center, Lokoja (FMC) has been accused of attempting to rape a woman, who was taking care of a patient on admission in the hospital.

The incident, according to a source at the hospital, occurred on Tuesday night in an uncompleted building within the hospital’s premises.

The source said the suspect, who is a computer operator with the hospital, was in the habit of introducing himself to patients as a medical doctor.

It was gathered that on the day of the incident, the suspect allegedly lured the woman from the ward late in the night to an uncompleted building within the premises of the hospital, and pleaded with the man in charge of the uncompleted building to let him in.

The source added that when the suspect attempted to rape the woman, she shouted, and attracted security men, who apprehended him. The Public Relations Officer of the hospital, Mallam Abdullahi Abdulrahaman confirmed the incident, adding that the suspect was not a medical doctor, but a staff in the computer department of the hospital. He said the management of the hospital has taken up the case.

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