Borno woman jailed two years for sexual assault

A Borno State High Court in Maiduguri has convicted a 37-year-old woman, Fatima Sanda, to two years in prison for procuring a 16-year-old girl for sexual exploitation. The conviction, secured by the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons, was announced on Monday, with the court ordering Sanda to pay N500,000 in compensation to the victim.

The case came to light a month after a similar conviction in Niger State, where a 27-year-old man was sentenced to seven years in prison for assaulting an eight-year-old girl.

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