FCT Court remands 2 for kidnapping, gang-raping pregnant woman
An area court in Gwagwalada in Federal Capital Territory (FCT) on Tuesday ordered that two cattle herders who pleaded guilty to abducting and raping a woman be detained in a correctional centre pending sentencing on March 22.
Earlier, the prosecutor, Dabo Yakubu, informed the court that on February 25, the defendants, Nuru Tukur (21) and Yusufa Haruna (29), kidnapped an eight-month-pregnant woman from her home in the Abaji Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory, took her to a bush where they both sexually assaulted her not minding that she was eight months pregnant.
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He said one Abubakar Wakili of Yaba in Abaji Area Council reported the matter at the Gwagwalada Area Command office on February 26.
The prosecutor said the offences contravened Sections 96, 262, 264, and 387 of the Penal Code.
The Judge, Malam Abdullahi Abdulkarim, deferred sentencing in order for him to see and know the condition of the victim.
