Justice Adedayo Akintoye of a Lagos High Court sitting in Igbosere Monday June 1,2020 sentenced James Onuoha,an EX- Exxon Mobil engineer, to 15 years imprisonment for raping his tenant’s 14-year old niece.
He was sentenced without an option of fine.
At the last adjourned date, on January 14, 2020, the court had adjourned the case until March 25, for judgment, after the parties adopted their final written addresses. But the judgment could not be delivered due to the COVID- 19 pandemic which led to lockdown in March.
Delivering judgment, Justice Akintoye, sentenced him to 15 years jail term without an option of fine after finding Onouah guilty of the offence of rape.
Delivering judgment, Justice Akintoye, sentenced him to 15 years jail term without an option of fine after finding Onouah guilty of the offence of rape.
Before handing down the verdict, the convict’s counsel, Dr Victor Olowonla, in his allocutus pleaded with the court to tender justice with mercy as he was a first time offender.
He said. ” My lord, he is a first time offender, he is a family man with wife and children and also the breadwinner of his family”. He has lost his job since this case came up, going by the circumstances of this case, I urge my lord to tender justice with mercy, ”
Onouah 42, was arraigned by the Lagos State Government, for the Rape. He was first arraigned in January 2016 at the Magistrates’ Court on a four-count charge of defilement and remanded in Kirikiri correctional centre pending legal advice from the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP). Following his indictment by the DPP, the case was transferred to the high court for trial. The state government accused Onuoha of committing the alleged offences on January 4, 2016, at 11:30 a.m in Ajah, Lagos.
Onuoha's offences contravened Sections 134 (2), 135 (1), and is punishable under Sections 137 and 258 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2011.
from vanguardngr.com
Onuoha's offences contravened Sections 134 (2), 135 (1), and is punishable under Sections 137 and 258 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2011.
from vanguardngr.com
Mercy bawo??? Justice kee you there!!!
ReplyDeleteAs in, mercy tear him mouth there! Somebody they are meant to first of all flog gidi
DeleteWas he not a family man with wife and children and also the breadwinner of his family before he commited the rape of a 14 year old
DeleteFirst time offender my foot. This one has been raping people,nemesis just caught up with him and the girls people were unrelenting in getting justice while his other victims let it go.
DeleteI remembered this case.. Thank God justice has been served but 15years??? No, he should have been jailed for life or better still die by hanging
DeleteThe rate at which rapists are increasing, its as if everyone is now a rapist.
DeleteI have been looking at men around me with sideeyes.
Every caught rapist whether prosecuted or not claims 'first time' offence. But they are actually SERIAL RAPIST who have perfected their games, getting away with it until caught. He should have been sentenced to life imprisonment because once freed, this evil in his blood will push him to the next victim. If he wasn't caught, how many more victims would he have molested?
DeleteOne doesn't just wake up one day at old age and suddenly begin to rape minors or rape at all.
DeleteNa today own hook am naim make us know him potential. I hope his victims can step forward and say their story.
Improper ejaculating of sperm can damage someone.
DeleteOga rapist happy new month
More to go
DeleteGod please keep exposing them
@pushup it is not increasing o, that's how it has been, it is just that more cases are reported these days. As of 2015,unicef statistics on rape shows that 1 in 4 girls in Nigeria have experienced sexual violence before the age of 18. Thanks to awareness and countless NGOs that are fighting to get justice for rape victims. I'm glad that the stigma is reducing too
DeleteGood for him.. Rest in Jail sir.
ReplyDelete🤣🤣🤣🤣
DeleteMelancholy
@unknown this melancholy you always put after your comments do you know what it means?
DeleteMay we not invite sadness into our lives in Jesus name.
I thought rape was life in prisonment🙆
DeleteThank GOD he was caught 🙏
I've learned a new one.
Delete10:16, calm down!!!
DeleteMelancholy is her blog name. She signs out with it to differentiate her from the other unknowns.
jeez melancholy is a personality trait. It dsnt automatically mean doom alone.
DeleteWho knows anon, you might be melancholic too.
10:16 my temperament is melancholy, so I decided to use it as as my moniker.
DeleteThanks guys!
Melancholy
It a curse, dis rapist are they curse?why all dis when u know u have ur own family why doing dis .it served right 🚶🏻♀️🚶🏻♀️🚶🏻♀️🚶🏻♀️
ReplyDeleteJust negodu his fat face. You will rot in jail
ReplyDeleteAmen!🤣
DeleteThis news makes me happy.
Melancholy
Fat Face just like this emoji 🌚
DeleteNa for that jail him fat face go burst.. Shebi na because say him chop belleful, na why he dey misbehave.. Ewu
Tade🤣🤣🤣🤣
DeleteWhat was he looking for in the body of a smallie? Disgusting ewu!!!
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂🤣😂😂😂😂 the worst part of it is that, others will never learn from this.... tomorrow you will hear another similar story. Tufiyakwa
Delete@licious then we will keep sending them to jail. When dem no see any small pikin/woman to rape, they will start raping themselves as animals they are.
DeleteLock him up in a steel drum and throw away the key.
ReplyDeleteThank you Lord! May rest on this evil acts be apprehended asap! Mercy how? You didn't mercy the poor girl nau!
ReplyDeleteGood for him,infact a trophy Lager beer for the judge,so he is a family man but allowed his dick to ruin his family,please he should be put in a prison in the northern states so he can be brutashilised😣😣radarada
ReplyDeleteHe should rot in jail
ReplyDeleteServes him right! wish the penalty for rape will be death by hanging...Lol
ReplyDeleteFive minutes of pleasure has cost you your job,jail term,your family will be stigmatized.
ReplyDeleteSelf control is everything.
Enjoy in jail.
Loud it🔊 🔊 .
DeleteYour body parts shouldn't control your brain.
They should lock him up
ReplyDeleteThey never learn!
ReplyDeleteMercy kor, Ike ni
I’m angry asf
Lock him up in the cell and throw away the 🔑 ojare..
BV Yosola
In other news, I’ll be commenting more now🤗
Get an ID please 🤗🤗
DeleteMercy kor Ike ni🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
DeleteUna no go kill person
Women/girls/babies are indeed not safe! Lord have mercy. Just take a look at his smiley face, who would have thought him a child abuser and a rapist, who?? Fifteen years is good enough but a death sentence by chopping off his p***s would have been perfect. Women please your eyes should always be on your children, be her a female or a male always check and ask them questions.
ReplyDeleteWhich justice and which mercy? Na wa o! What's happening with these people and rape now? They shouldn't spare anyone caught in such acts of wickedness and they should be thoroughly dealt with too.
ReplyDeleteO chimoooo!
ReplyDeleteRot in jail....
The man look sick with that pervert grin on his face.
ReplyDeleteThey forget to add "with hard labour"
ReplyDeleteAnd no food or water .
DeleteWhy rape when you can get women at the brothel to satisfy your sexual urge? For you it might just be five minutes but for her it's a life time nightmare.
ReplyDeleteMaybe life imprisonment or death sentence should be associated with rape to see if these idiots will stop.
I actually feel rapist are sick in the head. Anyone that enjoys forceful sex is sick in the head. He had the money to get prostitute but the bastard probably like little girls.
DeleteCASTRATION for all rapists!😠
DeleteThat should be part of the sentence.
Rapists are not sickos, but WEAK MEN that seek to validate their 'male strength' through sexual violence against defenseless women, strangers and children.
This should serve as a deterrent to others..NO MERCY FOR RAPISTS.
ReplyDeleteSo your wife couldn't satisfy him you ?
I'm sure his eyes are clear now
What sort of lawyers stand in for rapists? And still go ahead to plead for mercy for him.. tamboult he's a married man, he has lost his job.. didn't he think of that before he forced his old self on a 14yr old? What sort of sick country is this? 🤦
ReplyDeleteCan you imagine? Raping a 14 years old girl is what he thought was exciting? Let him serve the jail time. Stupid man.
ReplyDeleteHe should even be killed rather than serving the mail term...14year old.. imagine!!!
Delete15years in jail is absolutely nothing compared to what he has done..We as parente really need to focus our attention on training our boys to become better men in the future
ReplyDelete#saynotorape
You can say that again, enough of imparting only Alpha traits in all areas into the male child
DeleteYou can say that again, enough of imparting only Alpha traits in all areas into the male child.
DeleteI pray he dies in jail because people like him do not deserve to live. There should be a dead sentence to anyone who rape 😠😠😠😠😠
ReplyDelete15 years is small, there should be other punishments attached.
ReplyDeleteekwensu just look at his disgusting face
ReplyDeleteOnuoha, now with all the trauma and torture you've been going through for over 4yrs now, wouldn't it have been better to let the child go on that faithful day?
ReplyDeleteDid you ever think that it's a "smallie" that would end your life like this? Now see, no job, no freedom, no family, no "landlordship" no nothing!!!
Onuoha, was it worth it??...
Mr Onuoha, the family man who deemed it fit to rape another persons daughter while his is protected and tended to at home.
ReplyDeleteEnjoy the jail and hope you receive loads of anal sex.
Can that lawyer be sentenced alongside?
ReplyDeleteSupported @ For all your Fabric.
DeleteThe unintelligent lawyer should not have mentioned mercy or first offender in his defense.
A plea for a reduced sentence maybe, for the lack of something better though a rapist should get no leniency! 😠😠
Foolish man. A disgrace to himself alone. You will have enough time to think about what you have done. I think another issue we should take seriously is that of minors. Who is a minor? If you an adult male or female is having sexual relationships with a minor, the law should come down heavily on such a person. A minor cannot consent to anything. Paedophiles will always make comments in conversations about how especially young girls are overexposed even more than adults. So what? Take your old age to your mates or those above 18.
ReplyDeleteFirst time offender indeed! Mtvhewww
ReplyDeleteI remember the story.
ReplyDeleteDid he show mercy to the poor girl he had scarred for life? He should have been castrated then imprisoned
ReplyDeleteI don't pity him at all!!
ReplyDeleteI pity his wife and innocent kids that he has brought shame on.
Enjoy your jail term oooo
He should rot in jail. The inmates might not be kind to him. Most prisoners detest rapists and l hope that will be his fate.
ReplyDeleteServes the useless man right
ReplyDeleteServers the useless man right
ReplyDeleteRapists are animals and aren't fit to live with humans. He should remain locked up until the end of his life.
ReplyDeleteThis case happened in my hood, the next estate from my house.
ReplyDeleteSo sad to read 😢
DeleteI can never defend s rapist no matter how much I'm paid to represent such a person in court I just cannot .
Jist us biko😀😀😀
DeleteAnon 10:52 come and tell us more about the sick paedophile
DeleteAnd that's how my comment entered Stella's sperm bank
ReplyDeleteGood judgement!
ReplyDeleteHis gbola should be cut off and fed to dogs... Stupid pervert!!
ReplyDeleteThese Lawyers are terrible. Mercy? First time offender? For the rape of a minor? And they have female relatives, daughters? I can't understand it. 15 years is too small Abeg. The punishment for rape, should be straight up castration.
ReplyDeleteHappy that the little girl got some justice. However, I wonder about the "wives of rapist", how do they cope? What was their initial reaction when their husbands get accused of rape? Do they have an idea that they've married a rapist? Do they divorce their husbands or stick by them while claiming their innocence? Do they still allow their husbands to touch them knowing he's violated another? Do they still visit their husbands in jail, paying the role of an obedient and dutiful wife? Questions just full my head!
ReplyDeleteGod help me not to be caught in such a mess cos I'll drop his ass like a hot mess!
The telltale signs are always there for women who really dated/courted their partner.
DeleteSomeone rejected her first love because he slept with older ladies as well as her family's teenage help. The help was 14, and just 2years younger. All the while the guy (also a teen) pretended he was a virgin.
Well, a leopard does not change its spots.
Justice at last thank you lord
ReplyDeleteThere's nothing like First time offender when it comes to rape!
ReplyDeleteThey don't remember that they have family and children when they commits crimes, they only remember when nemesis catches up with them.
They should kill him in there. He doesn't deserve to be alive.
First time offender, my foot. How do we know he hasn't been doing this. Because he was caught, and his lawyer is saying he is a family man. Why didn't he think about his family when he was ruining a young's girl life? 15years is too small sef!
ReplyDeleteHow is his wife feeling right now, like the wife of a former Mobil staff or the wife of a lagos land lord? How are his children feeling right now? Did he think of his wife, kids, family, employer and his reputation before the act? Of course no, because he believes money answers all things. What if people like Kate Henshaw did not lend their voice, what would have bevome of the case? Would it have been settled publicly or 'privately?'. Rapists are only remorseful when caught and publicly disgraced. What is 15 years compared to the damage done to that child? Capital Punishment is the best way to approach this because many won't learn.
ReplyDeleteHow is his wife feeling right now, like the wife of a former Mobil staff or the wife of a lagos land lord? How are his children feeling right now? Did he think of his wife, kids, family, employer and his reputation before the act? Of course no, because he believes money answers all things. What if people like Kate Henshaw did not lend their voice, what would have bevome of the case? Would it have been settled publicly or 'privately?'. Rapists are only remorseful when caught and publicly disgraced. What is 15 years compared to the damage done to that child? Capital Punishment is the best way to approach this because many won't learn.
ReplyDeleteStella thanks for bringing this here! IF I will be president of Nigeria I will pass into law death penalty for all rapists and paedophiles!
ReplyDeleteHow is his wife feeling right now, like the wife of a former Mobil staff or the wife of a lagos land lord? How are his children feeling right now? Did he think of his wife, kids, family, employer and his reputation before the act? Of course no, because he believes money answers all things. What if people like Kate Henshaw did not lend their voice, what would have bevome of the case? Would it have been settled publicly or 'privately?'. Rapists are only remorseful when caught and publicly disgraced. What is 15 years compared to the damage done to that child? Capital Punishment is the best way to approach this because many won't learn.
ReplyDeletemercy is literally saying NO.
ReplyDeleteDo we even ha a sex offender register? When they release him now wont he move to where no one knows that he is both a rapist and a pedophile.
ReplyDeleteHe is a disgrace to himself alone. If i were his wife, i will sell the house and relocate and change my children's name. Na to divorce this kind of shameless man. Well she is lucky, na him type dey rape daughter. Who knows if he may have been doing houshelp if they had one. Shameless Man....
‘he is the breadwinner of his family'
ReplyDeleteDid he think about this why he ruined that girls life?! The sentence is even too small!
” My lord, he is a first time offender, he is a family man with wife and children and also the breadwinner of his family”. He has lost his job since this case came up, going by the circumstances of this case, I urge my lord to tender justice with mercy,” wetin dey do some lawyers self, he did not know he is a married and the bread winner of the family before raping that innocent girl.....
ReplyDeleteA better punishment would have been to sentence him to 15 years jail term with constant sex of 100 oloshos every day
ReplyDeleteHis fellow inmates will make sure of that. Plenty of anal sex for him
DeleteJustice has been served.go and rot in jsil.rapist.
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