Court acquits man of defiling his 8-year- old stepdaughter

Justice Sybil Nwaka of an Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court, on Monday acquitted a sales engineer, Happiness Essien, charged with defiling his 8-year-old child daughter .

He said: “I will like to seize this opportunity to appeal to witnesses in sexual assault cases, particularly the complainants. We commend their prompt reaction in reporting sexual offences to the police. “We plead that they should encourage the victims to come out. The efforts of the state is to ensure that perpetrators are brought to book and this can only happen if there is cooperation between the victim, the complainant and the prosecution.According the prosecution, Essien, committed the offence on April 12, 2016 at 7.30 p.m. at his residence at No. 7, Olorunwa, Shasha -Akowonjo area of Lagos.“The crime was reported by the victim’s mother at Shasha police station, Lagos.

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