The judiciary Tuesday sent a strong message to rapists and paedophiles in the country when a Nasarawa State High Court ordered the Inspector General of Police Mohammed Abubakar and Mr. Anthony Onoja, a police corporal and convicted rapist, to pay a two-year-old rape victim Chinwendu Obi Onwudiwe, the sum of N10 million for exemplary damages.
Expectedly, there was an immediate outcry from many who considered the judgment to be too light for the police corporal and insisted that he deserved to spend a long time in jail for sexually defiling a baby.
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