A Bayelsa State High Court sitting in Yenagoa has sentenced a 41-year-old man, Baridapsi Needam, to 14 years imprisonment for raping and impregnating his daughter. The victim gave birth to a baby girl in pendency of the trial. The Bayelsa Commissioner for Justice and Attorney-General, Mr Briyal Dambo, in the suit numbered YHC/14C/2022, charged the accused with the offence of rape contrary to Section 1(1) of the Violence Against Persons (Prohibition) Law of Bayelsa State, 2021. Prosecuting Counsel, Bayelsa Ministry of Justice, Pere Amanda Egbuson, told the court that investigations revealed that the accused, Needam, started abusing his daughter when
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