Justice Marcel Okoh of Delta State High Court sitting at Akwukwu-Igbo yesterday sentenced two brothers to 30 years jail term for gang-raping a 12-year-old girl. The convicts, Chukwuedo Mogaha (30) and Amaechi Mogaha (33), were found guilty of the crime after they could not prove their case beyond reasonable doubt.
The judge held that the prosecution from the state Ministry of Justice was able to prove the essential ingredients of conspiracy and rape against the accused.Delivering his judgement in Asaba, Okoh sentenced the first accused, Chukwuedo, to seven years in jail for the offence of conspiracy to commit rape and 14 years with hard labour for the substantive offence of rape.
For the second accused, Amaechi, the judge held that prosecution was only able to prove the count of conspiracy and failed in the count of rape against the accused. He, therefore, sentenced him to seven years in jail for count one while he was sentenced two years imprisonment with hard labour for indecent assault of a girl under 13.
