{"id":152740,"date":"2025-02-25T16:13:38","date_gmt":"2025-02-25T15:13:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/herbalist-jailed-14-years-for-attempted-sexual-assault-on-minor"},"modified":"2025-02-27T22:41:57","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T21:41:57","slug":"herbalist-jailed-14-years-for-attempted-sexual-assault-on-minor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/herbalist-jailed-14-years-for-attempted-sexual-assault-on-minor","title":{"rendered":"Herbalist jailed 14 years for attempted sexual assault on minor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>An Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court on Tuesday sentenced a herbalist, Segun Shina, to 14 years\u2019 imprisonment for attempted sexual assault on a 10-year-old girl who suffered epilepsy.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Rahman Oshodi sentenced Shina after he pleaded guilty to an amended one-count charge of attempted sexual assault.<\/p>\n<p>The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Shina had in a plea bargain agreement changed his plea of not guilty to guilty.<\/p>\n<p>Oshodi, therefore, held that the evidence before the court, and the voluntary plea, proved that Shina committed the offence.<\/p>\n<p>Oshodi, thereafter, convicted him as charged.<\/p>\n<p>The judge held that he was satisfied that the convict duly understood the nature of the plea bargain agreement, and that his counsel had explained it to him.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cSegun Shina, you have pleaded guilty to attempted sexual assault by penetration of a 10-year-old girl suffering from epilepsy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI must emphasise that the charge with which you were earlier charged carries life imprisonment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou exploited the child seeking help for epilepsy and you also betrayed the trust placed on you as a traditional herbal healer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have considered your plea for mercy, your lawyer\u2019s allocutus, submission of the prosecutor and I hereby sentence you to 14 years jail term.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Oshodi ordered that the sentence should commence from Nov.16, 2018, the day Shina was arrested.<\/p>\n<p>The court also ordered the family of the convict to ensure his rehabilitation upon release.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou shall have no direct or indirect contact with the family of the survivor and your name shall be registered as a sex offender under the law,\u201d the judge also held.<\/p>\n<p>NAN recalls that Shina was initially arraigned on a charge of defilement on April 4, 2021 by the Lagos State Government.<\/p>\n<p>He pleaded not guilty to the charge and the State Counsel, Ms Bukola Okeowo, called two witnesses: the survivor\u2019s mother and an investigative police officer, through whom compelling evidence and exhibits were tendered as evidence.<\/p>\n<p>The survivor\u2019s mother told the court that the survivor suffered from epilepsy and she had taken her to Shina for healing.<\/p>\n<p>The offence, according to the prosecution, violate Section 262 of the Criminal Laws of Lagos State, 2015.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. An Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court on Tuesday sentenced a herbalist, Segun Shina, to 14 years\u2019 imprisonment for attempted sexual assault on a 10-year-old girl who suffered epilepsy. Justice Rahman Oshodi sentenced Shina after he pleaded guilty to an amended one-count charge of attempted sexual assault. 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