{"id":16315,"date":"2024-01-24T17:07:02","date_gmt":"2024-01-24T17:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=16315"},"modified":"2024-01-24T17:07:02","modified_gmt":"2024-01-24T17:07:02","slug":"man-sentenced-to-7-years-in-prison-for-defiling-impregnating-minor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/01\/24\/man-sentenced-to-7-years-in-prison-for-defiling-impregnating-minor\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Sentenced to 7 years in Prison for Defiling, Impregnating Minor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man in his fifties, identified as Anayor Ugo, has been convicted and sentenced to seven years imprisonment without the option of a fine for defiling and impregnating a 12-year-old girl by a Magistrate Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State.<\/p>\n<p>Ugo, a generator repairer, was reported to have, some time in 2021, visited the home of the underage girl in Oyigbo to repair their generator set on the directives of the victim\u2019s father, but defiled her in the process.<\/p>\n<p>During the trial, although he had admitted having carnal knowledge of the girl, he denied getting her pregnant, claiming he was seduced.<\/p>\n<p>Rita Oguguo, the Chief Magistrate, in her judgment said the prosecution was able to prove their case that the girl was defiled through evidence and personal admission of the accused.<br \/>\nShe thereafter sentenced him to seven years imprisonment without an option of fine, following his plea for mercy after conviction<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man in his fifties, identified as Anayor Ugo, has been convicted and sentenced to seven years imprisonment without the option of a fine for defiling and impregnating a 12-year-old girl by a Magistrate Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. Ugo, a generator repairer, was reported to have, some time in 2021, visited the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":16317,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[181,172],"tags":[530],"class_list":["post-16315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-news","tag-rivers-state"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16315"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16318,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16315\/revisions\/16318"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}