An Anambra Magistrate Court has sentenced one Success James to four years imprisonment for luring four teenage girls into prostitution.
The 35-year-old convict was nabbed in December 2022, following the interception of four girls who were into prostitution by the Anambra State Commissioner for Women’s Affairs and Social Welfare, Mrs Ify Obinabo.
It was gathered that the Commissioner, two days to the 2022 Christmas celebration intercepted the girls, who are between the age of 13 and 15 years in Onitsha.
In their confessional statements, the girls told the authority that a certain Madam Success lured them into prostitution, with a promise of a job in a restaurant in Agbor, Delta State.
The Commissioner was said to have led security operatives to apprehend the accused, who was also brought to trial in a Children, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence court in Awka.
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The state charged Madam Success for offences of child labour, child exploitation, abduction of children and child stealing.
Chief Magistrate, Genevieve Osakwe who delivered judgement on the matter on Wednesday found Success James guilty of all the above charges.
She was sent to Awka correctional facility for multiple jail terms, ranging between one year and four years for all the charges.
Osakwe said “Success James guilty of count 1 and sentenced her to 5 years imprisonment, count 2 attracted 5 years imprisonment, she was slammed 2 years imprisonment in count 3, count 4 was 4 years imprisonment, 2 years imprisonment in count 5, in count 7, she was sentenced to 2 years imprisonment, while count 8 attracted 1-year imprisonment”.
The Chief Magistrate, however, declared that all the sentences would run concurrently, without any option of fine.