BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto –
Following case of alleged child battering leading to grievous injury and wrongly confinement brought before a Chief Magistrate Court siting in Sokoto against one Rahila Yakubu, Chief Magistrate, Fatima Hassan has ordered the remanding of the suspect.
The suspect, 33 years old Rahila Yakubu, believed to be a wife to a high ranking retired Customs officer has to cool off her feet at the correctional center for cruelty on a stepdaughter till December 22, when the case will be coming up for hearing.
According to the prosecutor, Inspector George Idoko, the perpetrator was arraigned on three count charges of causing grievous hurt, child cruelty and wrongful confinement, the offences that contravened the penal code laws of Sokoto.
In his statement before the court, Inspector Idoko, said the incident was reported on 12th of December 2021.
First Information Report (FIR), read that the victim who is responding to treatment was said to have sustained injuries on her body because of the alleged maltreatments.
Though, the accused Rahila Yakubu pleaded not guilty when the charges were read to her, hence an appeal for bail by her defence counsel, Mr Shamsuddeen Dauda,
The Prosecutor, Inpector Idoko, however, opposed the application on the grounds that the victim was still receiving treatment and granting bail might hamper the ongoing investigation.
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According to Idoko, all the allegations can be proved beyond reasonable doubt, hence evidences abound and each of the offence attracts five years imprisonment on conviction.
The trial judge, Chief Magistrate Fatima Hassan, ordered the accused to be remanded in correctional center and adjourned the case to Dec. 22, for hearing.
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