An Upper Area Court I, Kasuwan Nama in Jos, on Tuesday, sentenced a 14-year-old boy to three years in prison for raping a four-year-old girl.
The judge, Lawal Suleiman, sentenced the teenager without an option to pay fine.
Suleiman held that the punishment would serve as deterrent to others who would want to indulge in such crimes.
The prosecutor, Inspector Yakubu Audu had earlier told the court that the case was transferred from the Kaduna-Vom Police station to the State Crime Investigation and Intelligence Department on September 24. Read more