Justice Abiola Soladoye of a Lagos Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court, Ikeja, yesterday, sentenced 51-year-old Ubregbo Parmer, to life imprisonment for defiling his colleague’s nine-year-old daughter.
Parmer was sentenced to life imprisonment after he was found guilty as charged by the state government.
The court held that the prosecution had sufficiently proven the charge of defilement against the defendant beyond a reasonable doubt.
The prosecution alleged that the defendant committed the offence on December 10, 2019, in the Magodo area of Lagos.
The offence contravenes the provisions of Section 137 of the Criminal Laws of Lagos State, 2015.
Delivering judgment yesterday, the judge said that the testimony of the survivor and the medical doctor showed that the convict committed the offence.
According to the court, the testimony of the respective prosecution witnesses established the ingredients of the offence against the defendant, who was properly identified by the survivor.
“The survivor gave a vivid and gory account of her ordeal in the hands of the defendant. I hereby find you, Ubregbo Parmer guilty of one-count charge of defilement,” the judge held.
Also, Justice Soladoye ordered that the convict’s name be written in the Sexual Offence Register as maintained by Lagos State.
The judge, however, berated the survivor’s mother for being negligent to have allowed her child to be taken away by her male colleague, without supervision.
“Parents should be alive to their responsibilities. The need for proper and good parentage cannot be undermined at this age. The crime of defilement and rape is the order of the day,” the court said.
During the trial, the prosecuting counsel, Mrs. Olufunke Adegoke, called two witnesses and tendered two exhibits, but it was only the defendant that testified in his defence.
The prosecution had told the court that the survivor’s mother took her daughter to the office and left her to attend to other things, when the convict quickly removed her pants and had sexual intercourse with her.
