Islamic Clerics Bag 22 Years Imprisonment For Raping Four Girls

 On Monday August 17, A chief magistrate sitting in Minna, Niger state sentenced two brothers, Hassan Bilyaminu and Abdullahi Bilyaminu , who are Islamic clerics, to 22 years imprisonment for raping four girls who were students in their Islamic school in Minna.

According to the first information report (FIR) which was read in court by the police prosecutor, Sergeant Bello Mohammed, the offense committed by the alleged brothers were punishable under section 285 of the penal code law, as well as section 19(2) of the child's right law of Niger state, 2010.

The charge read 

"That on the 2nd of August 2020, one Lawal Idris of Tudun Nasira Area of Maitumbi in Minna, represented three others , and reported that on 31st of July,2020, you Hassan Bilyaminu and Abdullahi Bilyaminu lured four of the girls whose ages ranges between 6 and 11 years old pupils of your Islamiya, into your house and used your finger to rub and inserted into the minors' vagina one after the other. During the police investigation you confessed to the commission of the crime. You're hereby suspected to have committed the above offenses."

The suspects pleaded guilty to the charges and appealed to the judge to temper Justice with mercy . They claimed the devil pushed them to commit the crime.

" One wonders what people like the convicts derive from assaulting and defiling little girls. This has gone berserk; there must be more to this pandemic of sexual assault on little children." The presiding chief magistrate, Hauwa Baba Yusuf said while delivering her judgement.