Nigerian Man Eke Ugochukwu Bags 20-Year Jail Term In South Africa For Sex Related Offences
Nigerian Man Eke Ugochukwu Bags 20-Year Jail Term In South Africa For Sex Related Offences is the type of headline usually seen across social media when it has to do with South Africa. Anyway, the man is reported to have been sexually exploiting a 15-year-old girl until she eventually escaped from him in 2015 and received help in a nearby church in Rosettenville. Judge Majake Mabasele of the Gauteng High Court, in a ruling, said what the Ugochukwu did to the girl was cruel.
“Clearly what happened to her was cruel, inhuman and degrading and in violation of the right to human dignity, which is enshrined in our constitution,” the judge said.
“The accused is sentenced to 15 years for counts 3‚ 4 ‚ 5 ‚ 6 together.
“He is sentenced to 10 years on count 8. Five years will run concurrently with the 15 years above‚” he added.
“Therefore the accused is sentenced to an effective term of 20 years imprisonment.”
The charges he was found guilty of include living off the proceeds of sexual exploitation‚ being an accomplice to rape and contravening the Prevention and Combating of Trafficking in Persons Act.
