An
Upper Sharia Court sitting at Nomansland of Sabon Gari area in Kano
State has sentenced Ubale Saudi Dutsa, a 63-year-old man, to death by
stoning, following his involvement in the defilement of a 12-year-old girl,
Shamsiyya.
Delivering
judgment on the matter, Justice Farouk Ahmad held that he relied on Sharia law
guided by Quran to sentence the convict accordingly.
Dutsa
had pleaded guilty seven times before the sentence was handed down.
The
minor was said to have been medically examined at the state-owned Murtala
Muhammad Hospital while it discovered that she was infected with HIV/AIDS
as a result of the convict’s carnal knowledge of her.
The
convict was brought before the court on the charge of defiling Shamsiyya
from a small part of the state known as Gezawa town.
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