35-year-old woman jailed for luring teenage girls into prostitution in Delta State
A 35-year-old woman, Success James has bagged multiple jail terms for luring four teenage girls into prostitution.
The Anambra State Commissioner for Women’s Affairs and Social Welfare, Mrs Ify Obinabo had two days to the 2022 Christmas celebration intercepted four girls aged between 13 and 15 years in Onitsha, who were into prostitution.
The girls confessed that a certain Madam Success, lured them into prostitution, with a promise of a job in a restaurant in Agbor, Delta State.
Obinabo had led security operatives to arrest Madam Success, who was also brought to trial in a Children, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence court in Awka.
The 35-year-old suspect was tried for offences of child labour, child exploitation, abduction of children and child stealing.
Chief Magistrate, Genevieve Osakwe who delivered judgement on the matter on Wednesday found Success James guilty of all the above charges.
She was sent to Awka correctional facility for multiple jail terms, ranging between one year and four years for all the charges.
The Chief Magistrate, however, declared that all the sentences would run concurrently, without any option of fine.
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ANAMBRA STATE GOVERNMENT'S FIGHT AGAINST CHILD LABOR, SEXUAL EXPLOITATION HITS TARGET, AS SUSPECT BAGS MULTIPLE PRISON TERMS IN AWKA.
By Chidinma Ikeanyionwu
The Children, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence Chief Magistrate Court, sitting in Awka, has, recently, sentenced a 35-year-old woman to prison, for offences of child labor, child exploitation, abduction of children and child stealing.
The convict, one Success James, was prosecuted before the Court on an 8-count charge of conspiracy, other offences bothering on child labour, sexual exploitation and child stealing, and found guilty of seven of the charges by the presiding Court.
Delivering judgement on the case, the Presiding Chief Magistrate, Genevieve Osakwe found Success James guilty of count 1 and sentenced her to 5 years imprisonment; count 2 attracted 5 years imprisonment; she was slammed 2 years imprisonment in count 3; count 4 was 4 years imprisonment; 2 years imprisonment in count 5; in count 7, she was sentenced to 2 years imprisonment, while count 8 attracted 1 year imprisonment.
The Chief Magistrate, however, declared that all the sentences would run concurrently, without any option of fine.
The convict, Success James was earlier apprehended at Onitsha and arraigned before the Chief Magistrate Court in Awka, sometime in December, 2022, for abducting four teenage girls and subjecting them to child labour and sexual exploitation.
Recall that in the month of December 2022, four teenage girls were rescued by the Honorable Commissioner for Women and Social Welfare, Hon Ify Obinabo, about two days to Christmas.
The girls who are between 13 and 15 years old respectively, all hail from Akwa Ibom State.
In their separate evidences before the Honourable Court, the victims told the Court that they were lured into prostitution business by one aunty Success who told them that she had a job opportunity for them in Agbor, Delta state, where they would be selling drinks in a beer parlor; but on getting to Agbor, they discovered that it was prostitution work they were brought to do.
Reacting to the judgement, the Women and Social Welfare Commissioner Hon. Obinabo expressed happiness over the speedy trial of the case and revealed that the children had been enrolled in school, while those who preferred learning skills acquisition had started learning skills of their choice at the state-owned Skills Acquisition Center, in Awka.
Hon Obinabo went further to warn that Anambra state Government would not tolerate any crimes of such nature and would continue to do her best to ensure that children and women in the state get justice, whenever their rights are violated.
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