Man Who Raped, Infected His Wife’s Niece With HIV In Lagos Gets Life Sentence 

Justice Oyindamola Ogala of the  Lagos state High Court, Ikeja, has awarded  life sentence to  Mr Richard Saviour,  who raped and infected his wife’s  14-year-old niece with  the Human Immunodeficiency Virus, the Lagos state Domestic and Sexual Violence Agency, has  disclosed.

Team@orientactualmags.com learned that this was made known in a statement posted on the agency’s X handle, @Lagosdsva on Wednesday.

‘The judge noted that when the police took the victim to the Mirabel Centre, she was tested and found to be HIV positive.

Thereafter, she was transferred to Mary’s Home Orphanage and looked after with the help of Positive Action for Treatment Access, a Non-Governmental Organization.

The judge, hence, convicted the defendant on the charge of defilement by unlawful sexual assault and sentenced him to life imprisonment in the correctional centre’ the agency wrote.

The state Counsel, Ola Azeez,  the agency added,  had called three witnesses to prove the prosecution’s case while Richard testified in his defence during the trial.

Justice Oyindamola Ogala submitted  that the evidence provided by all the prosecution witnesses was corroborated and considered as the truth adding that the victim’s evidence was corroborated by the Investigating Police Officer and Social Worker from the state Ministry of Youth and Social Welfare.

‘The testimony before the court depicts the ‘evil’ perpetrated on this young girl and how she was abused both mentally and physically by the defendant and his wife for years.

Revealing how she indeed ‘cried out’ for help and was betrayed by those who were supposed to help and support her.

It is imperative to state at this juncture that the actions of the principal of PW2’s school and the social worker (PW3) are commendable as same eventually brought some succour and relief to PW2, who unfortunately has been permanently ‘scared’

Having carefully considered the entirety of facts before the court, it finds that in this instance, the prosecution has satisfactorily proved the one count information the defendant stands faced with.

The defendant in his evidence before the court indeed narrated how PW2 (the survivor) had at one instance, after running from home to avoid a beating from his wife, ran to the station and he was subsequently informed that PW2 accused him of molesting her.

The court finds that the totality of the testimony of the defendant who testified in his defence calling no additional witness is in essence a denial of the allegation without more.

He offered no reliable explanations to the charge aside from attempts to depict PW2 as a stubborn girl and one who stole from himself and his wife’ the judge added–Team@orientactualmags.com
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