Friday, March, 13 2026 - An Ikeja S3xual Offences and Domestic Violence Court has sentenced two men to 15 years’ imprisonment each for the d3ath of a 12-year-old housemaid.
The convicts, Edidiong Edem, a painter aged 22, and Alex
Effiong-Etim, a 21-year-old mechanic, were handed the jail terms by Justice
Abiola Soladoye after entering a plea bargain on an amended charge of
involuntary manslaughter.
Delivering judgment on Thursday, March 12, 2026, the court
found the duo guilty and imposed a 15-year custodial sentence on each of them.
Justice Soladoye ruled that the punishment would take effect
from the date the convicts were first remanded in a correctional facility.
The court heard that the men flogged the victim with a
broom, an assault that ultimately resulted in her d3ath.
Edem and Effiong-Etim were initially arraigned before the
court on February 25, 2022, where they pleaded not guilty to the charge.
However, they later opted for a plea bargain agreement dated
February 25, which led to the amended charge of involuntary manslaughter.
Earlier during proceedings, the prosecution, led by state
counsel Oluwaseun Adewoye, told the court that the offence occurred in January
2022 at Military Estate in the Eleko area of Lagos State.
According to the prosecution, the convicts recklessly
flogged the young girl on her legs with a broom, inflicting injuries that later
became infected with tetanus and eventually led to her d3ath.
The prosecution further stated that the offence contravened
Section 224 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015.
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