A Magistrate’s Court in Awka, Anambra State, sentenced a 35-year-old woman, Success James, to prison on Wednesday for child labour and kidnapping female juveniles for prostitution in the state.
Genevieve Osakwe, the presiding magistrate, found James guilty on seven of the eight allegations brought against him.
Osakwe, who found James guilty, sentenced her to five years in prison for count one, five years in prison for count two, two years in prison for count three, four years in prison for count four, two years in prison for count five, two years in prison for count six, two years in prison for count seven, and one year in prison for count eight.
Osakwe went on to say that all of the sentences should run simultaneously, with no opportunity for fine.
The convict was apprehended in Onitsha, Anambra State, in December 2022, and arraigned before the court in Awka, for abducting four teenage girls from Akwa Ibom State and using them for child labour.
The four teenage girls were later rescued by officials of the state Ministry for Women and Social Welfare, on December 23, 2022.
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The victims had said they were taken by the suspect, who promised to secure jobs for them in Agbor, Delta State, where they would be selling drinks in a beer parlour, but on getting there, they discovered that it was prostitution work they were brought to do.
Reacting, the state Commissioner for Women and Social Welfare Commissioner, Ify Obinabo, while expressing happiness with the judgment, revealed that the children had been enrolled in school and had also been learning skills of their choice at the state skills acquisition centre in Awka.
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