Bauchi State High Court 1 has sentenced two persons, Adamu Abdulra’uf and Abdulkadir Wada to 35 years’ imprisonment each for causing grievous hurt and attempting to commit culpable homicide on a six-year-old girl. | Pulse Nigeria
A High Court in Bauchi State on Tuesday sentenced two men to 35 years in prison each for cutting off the genitals of a six-year-old girl, Hauwa'u Ya'u. The Bauchi Chief Judge, Justice Rabi Talatu Umar handed down the sentence to Adamu Abdulra’uf, 20, and Abdulkadir Wada, 21 after they pleaded guilty as charged. The convicts were arraigned in 2021 on three counts bordering on criminal conspiracy, causing grievous hurt and attempting to commit culpable homicide on the girl. The incident happened in the Jama'are Local Government Area of the state.