Justice Jane Inyang of theย Federal High Court sitting in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, has sentencedย Yinusa Dalhiru to 26 years imprisonment for abductingย then 14-year-old teenage girl, Ese Oruru, from her home in Bayelsa state to Kano state where he got married to her and impregnated her. She also changed her name to Aisha.
In 2015, 13-year-old Oruru was abducted, raped and impregnated by Yunusa Dahiru, a man presumably old enough to be her father.
The man later took her away to Kano State where she was later rescued in the palace of the Emir of Kano.
After months of outcry from her parents and Human rights activists, she was returned to Bayelsa in March 2016, pregnant with a child. She was delivered of her baby girl on May 26th, 2016.
Presiding judge, Justice Jane Inyang, acquitted the accused on the first count but convicted Dahiru on the remaining four charges.
The judge ruled that the sentence will run consecutively
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