Engineer Jailed Five Years Over Serial Rape Of 17-year-old Sister-in-law

A Bayelsa State High Court sitting in Yenagoa has sentenced an electrical engineer, Preye Ojoko, aged 50, to five years imprisonment for the serial rape of his 17-year-old Sister-In-law.

Ojoko, a father of five, was accused of raping his wife’s niece at the age of nine and 17 under the pretense of training her in school.

The prosecuting counsel and former Attorney General of the state, Kemesuode Wodu, Esq. told the court that the accused started the serial rape of his In-law when she was nine years but she was rescued and taken back to her village after the initial discovery by his wife, who is a Vice-Principal in one of the public schools in the state.

He said the accused, after convincing his wife that he had changed for good, lured back the victim to the house under the pretense that he was ready to support her university education.

The Presiding Judge, Justice T.Y. Abasi, after listening to the submissions of the prosecution counsel, Kemesuode Wodu, and the defence counsel, Stanley Damabide Esq, jailed the accused for five years.

Reacting to the development, the Acting Chairperson of FIDA in Bayelsa State, Ebimietei Ekeowei Ottah, described the hearing and ruling of the court as swift and commendable.

She said the judicial system was swift, fast and helped in passing quick message to other rapists that the law is now on the side of the victims of rape and defilement.
The FIDA chairperson also expressed concern over the issue of settlement out of court by parents of rape victims in the state.

“It is pathetic that some parents will negotiate the future of their children because of money. In the last few months, we have recorded five cases of defilement and three cases of rape from December last year to March this year,” Ottah lamented.

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