The police in Adamawa State has dragged a 45-year-old man, Sani Salihu, before the Chief Magistrate Court I, presided over by Magistrate Alheri Ishaku Salihu, for allegedly having forced anal sex with a 14-year-old boy.
According to reports available to NIGERIACRIME, the defendant, a resident of Jippu Jam in Yola South Local Government Area of the state, lured the boy into a nearby bush, threatened him with a pair of scissors, and abused him sexually.
The police prosecutor, Inspector Zakka Musa, told the court that the incident happened on June 24, 2023.
He alleged that the businessman penetrated the boy through the anus after brandishing the scissors which he threatened to use if he refused.
Musa further disclosed that on June 27, 2023, the distraught father of the victim, a resident of Modire Ward of Yolde Pate, in Yola South LGA, reported the case to the police.
The defendant, who pleaded not guilty, appeared be before the court for ‘unnatural offence’.
The prosecutor said the offence is contrary to Section 263 of the penal code.
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The Magistrate adjourned the case to 20th July, 2023, for further mention, and asked that the defendant be remanded.
The order followed an application by the prosecutor to enable him duplicate the case file and transmit it to the Director of Public Prosecution for legal advice.
However, the Magistrate Court summarily convicted and sentenced Sani Salihu to two years imprisonment for a different offence.
He was handed the jail term and given option of a N100,000 fine after he was convicted for the offence of resistance to his lawful arrest over his initial alleged offence.
He was accused of attempting to escape while being taken to Yolde Pate Correctional Centre by Inspector Ahmed Mohammed of the CID on July 3, 2023, when he was first arraigned in court.
Inspector Zakka Musa told the court that the convict jumped out of the tricycle in which he was being conveyed at Yolde Pate and attempted to escape but he was re-arrested by the officer after a long pursuit.