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A Chief Magistrate Court, the Children, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence Court, sitting in Awka, Anambra State, has sentenced one Victoria Enwerem (Anosike), aged, 42 years, to multiple jail terms.
Enwerem was arraigned in court on a-three count charge of conspiracy to steal children, fraudulently enticing away and habouring children, and forcefully isolating the children from their parents, punishable under the Criminal Code, Laws of Anambra State of Nigeria, 1991, and the Violence Against Persons (Prohibition and Protection) Laws of Anambra State, 2017 respectively.
The stolen children, five of them, were between the ages of three to 10 years old.
While delivering the judgment on Wednesday, the presiding Chief Magistrate, Genevieve Osakwe, stated that the defendant had been found guilty of all the three charges brought against her.
The presiding chief magistrate, therefore, stated that based on the oral testimonies of the defendant herself and the submissions of the plaintiff witnesses, as well as other material placed before the court, in respect of the case, there were overwhelming pieces of evidence against the defendant, and that the prosecutor had proved his case beyond reasonable doubts.
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In sentencing the defendant, Her Worship, Genevieve Osakwe, slammed on Enwerem, four years imprisonment in count one; eight years imprisonment in count two; and a term of six months imprisonment in court three, and declared, however, that all the sentences would run concurrently, without any option of fine.
According to the police prosecutor who prosecuted the case, Enwerem in September 2022, conspired with one Oluchi Ahamefula, now at large, to steal children at the popular MCC Junction, Onitsha, Anambra State, with a view of moving the children to an unknown destination, but luck ran out on her, when she was caught by officers of the Nigerian Police Force, who were on a stop and search operation, at Oraifite in Anambra state.
