Akin Isaac, a 52-year-old man has been sentenced to 21 years imprisonment by an Ikeja Special Offences Court on Thursday for defiling and impregnating his 18-year-old daughter.
The convict was sentenced to 21 years imprisonment by Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo following his plea bargain application, dated April 21.
“In view of the guilty plea of the defendant to one count of defilement, I hereby find the defendant guilty as charged,” Taiwo said.
The judge thereafter asked the defendant if he had anything to say, following his conviction.
The convict knelt down in the dock and pleaded for mercy, saying he had an aged mother to look after.
Taiwo thereafter sentenced him to 21 years in prison and added that the sentencing should take effect from June 2020 when the accused was arrested.
Earlier, the judge had asked the State Counsel, Mrs. Omowumi Bajulaye- Bishi if the 21 years plea bargain was good enough for the convict, owing to how emotional the survivor was while she was giving her testimony.
“I remember the survivor clearly. She was weeping right here in the box. Abortion, pregnancy, drugs, beating and all sorts of inhuman treatment meted on her by her father.
“Do you think 21 years is good enough for him?” the judge asked.
Bajulaye-Bishi, in her review of facts dated July 6, had informed the court that the convict applied and concluded to change his plea, upon which the information against him be amended to the offence of defilement.
The prosecutor said that the defendant had started having unlawful sexual intercourse with his 18-year-old daughter while she was six years old, which resulted in at least one pregnancy.
She also submitted that the defendant had attempted to procure an abortion for her and regularly administered drugs to her to prevent pregnancy.
“Trial opened on Feb. 7 in which the prosecution called four witnesses.
“The defendant, however, approached the state through his counsel to enter into a plea bargain agreement,” Bajulaye-Bishi said.
The offence, prosecution said committed the offence between 2014 and 2020 on Akinlagbe Street, Alapere Lagos.
The offence violated Section 137 of the Criminal Laws of Lagos State, 2015.
