An Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court on Tuesday sentenced a herbalist, Segun Shina, to 14 years’ imprisonment for attempted sexual assault on a 10-year-old girl who suffered epilepsy.

Justice Rahman Oshodi sentenced Shina after he pleaded guilty to an amended one-count charge of attempted sexual assault.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Shina had in a plea bargain agreement changed his plea of not guilty to guilty.

Oshodi, therefore, held that the evidence before the court, and the voluntary plea, proved that Shina committed the offence.

Oshodi, thereafter, convicted him as charged.

The judge held that he was satisfied that the convict duly understood the nature of the plea bargain agreement, and that his counsel had explained it to him.

He said: “Segun Shina, you have pleaded guilty to attempted sexual assault by penetration of a 10-year-old girl suffering from epilepsy.

“I must emphasise that the charge with which you were earlier charged carries life imprisonment.”

“You exploited the child seeking help for epilepsy and you also betrayed the trust placed on you as a traditional herbal healer.

“I have considered your plea for mercy, your lawyer’s allocutus, submission of the prosecutor and I hereby sentence you to 14 years jail term.”



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