A 23 year old prostitute named
Rosemary Ebikeme has been sentenced to 100 days in prison by an Abuja court for
stealing a customer’s $3,200 (about N500,000). The senior magistrate, Abdulahi
Ilaleh, of Life Camp Senior magistrate’s court, Abuja, convicted Rosemary after
she pleaded guilty to a one-count charge, however, gave her an option of N5,000
fine. Ilaleh cautioned the convict to desist from the crime, saying that the
sentence would serve as a deterrent to others.
Continue… Prosecutor Ona Odigiri
had told the court that on September 4 one Aleixandre Sachir of Tack
Continental Estate, Life Camp, reported the matter to Life Camp Police Station.
The prosecutor further told the court that the complainant met the convict in a
cinema hall and took her to Waxride Hotel. He said the convict stole $3,200
from the complainant on September 2 and eloped. Odigiri said that when the convict
came back to complain on September 4, she was apprehended and handed over to
the police. The convict, however, pleaded guilty to the charge and begged the
court to temper justice with mercy. She said: “Please have mercy on me; I am a
student and I am only looking for money to pay my school fees. I stole the
money to do business so that I will stop selling my body for money.
Please
forgive me. “I stole the money from him, even though he paid me N5,000 for my
service, please have mercy in God’s name.” The prosecutor said the offence
contravened Section 288 of the Penal Code Law.
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