For raping his 10-year-old stepdaughter, one Prophet, Anwana Peter Essien, has been sentenced to 21 years of pedophilic break in prison.
The self-confessed prophet blamed the ever-ubiquitous devil while pleading that a demon pushed him in the midnight to forcefully remove the clothes of his step-daughter and have unlawful carnal knowledge of the hapless JSS One student on August 9, 2019.
Conclave reports that the victim’s mother had brought her and her younger sister to spend the holiday with their stepfather in his residence at Itiam Street, Uyo.
According to the 37-year-old convict: “I know the victim of this case. She is my wife’s daughter. In August 2019, she came to my house at Itiam Street, Uyo. I gave her food and she ate then after eating, I told her to remove her clothes but she refused. From there, I forced her and removed her clothes.
“I was the one that used my hand and removed my penis and forcefully inserted it into her vagina and had canal knowledge of her. It is true that when I tried to put my penis inside her vagina, my penis was not able to enter her vagina. When I was having sex with her, I did not use any condom.”
In his judgment, Hon. Justice Okon Okon of a High Court of Justice Akwa Ibom State, Uyo, “the confession was direct, positive, and unequivocal that the randy stepfather had sexual intercourse with his stepdaughter.”
Justice Okon further held: “The parameters established for the proof of rape, have all been satisfied by the evidence of the prosecution witnesses, including the victim and the medical doctor who examined her, fortified by the confessional statement voluntarily made by the accused person himself.
“It is most despicable and depressing, that the supposed man of God overpowered and defiled an innocent child of about ten years who is incidentally, his stepdaughter.”
His lordship also described the conduct as “bizarre and degrading” adding that “the defendant lacks any claim of moral rectitude having thrown overboard, the limits of his liberties by shamelessly stripping and polluting the dignity, chastity and sanctity of his stepdaughter’s body and disregarding her underage status.”
Likewise, Hon. Justice Sedoten Ogunsanya of the Lagos State High Court in Ikeja recently sentenced a 41-year-old teacher, Chukwu Ndubuisi, to life imprisonment for defiling a six-year-old pupil of Mind Builders School.
Justice Ogunsanya handed down the sentence to Ndubuisi for forcing penetration on the minor, while noting that, the fact, circumstances, and quality of evidence against the defendant were compelling. The crime has committed the offence in June 2016.
The court disclosed that the survivor opened up to her mother when she (her mother) told her about a seven-year-old girl who was defiled and killed and which went viral. It was at that point that the survivor whispered to her mother and said she wanted to discuss something with her. She then proceeded to narrate her experience but pleaded with her mother not to tell her father and brother.
The court was told how the defendant usually sends the survivor’s friend to call her and that the first time the defendant defiled her was in the female toilet and that the second time was in the art room.
According to the minor, the convict would sometimes ask her to remove her uniform and then put his “bumbum” into her “bum.” At another time, he called her into the art room, put her on the table, parted her panties, and “put his thing into my thing.”
The survivor told the court that when the convict was finished, he would clean her up with tissue paper. Her mother had to intimate her husband, following which they went to their daughter’s school, but the art teacher was not in school.
When the parents then reported the matter at Omole Police station following which the matter was investigated and a test conducted on the little girl at Ikosi Health Centre, it was discovered that she had been defiled. Consequently, the Domestic and Sexual Violence Agency, DSVA, took up the case.
The judge held that the account of the survivor and that of her mother were uncontroverted, corroborated each other and that they gave a good account of the assault. She equally noted that the convict had unhindered access to the child and defiled her several times.
Again, she dismissed the submission by defence witnesses to the effect that the incident was not recorded on the school’s CCTV and upheld the result of the test conducted at the Mirabel Centre which showed that the survivor had torn hymen and reddish vulva and that their was evidence of forceful penetration.
