Ondo State High Court has sentenced one Patience Godswill, a human trafficker to 7 years imprisonment for stealing and selling a two-year-old girl, Blessing, in Omifon town, Odigbo Local Government Area of the state.
Taiwo Adesina, the mother of the victim, stated that her daughter was stolen on August 14, 2018, at Omifon.
According to her, Blessing, went out with her sister-in-law’s daughter, Amina, to buy biscuit, when she got missing.
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She told the court;
“I later traced the girls when they did not return on time; but I met Amina crying on the way. She said a certain woman collected Blessing from her after the strange woman had sent her (Amina) to buy bread. I immediately raised the alarm and the matter was reported to the police.”
Amina, Also testifying in court, said she left Blessing with the strange woman who sent her to buy bread.
She said;
“When I returned to the spot where we met the woman, she had disappeared with Blessing. I can identify the woman if I set my eyes on her.”
The convict alongside two others, Martha Ogboji and Nnomah Annaibe, were arrested and charged with stealing Blessing in Ondo State and selling her to a woman in Abia State for N300,000.
They were arraigned in court on two counts of conspiracy and child stealing.
Godswill who pleaded guilty to the two counts preferred against her was sentenced. while the case of the other two defendants who pleaded “not guilty” was transferred to Justice Olamide Williams of the same High Court.
Justice Williams adjourned the case till January 18, 2022 for continuation of trial
