South African court sentences Nigerian man to 20 years in prison for sexually exploiting teenager
A South African High Court has sentenced a Nigerian man to serve 20 years in prison for sexually exploiting a teenager.
The man, Eke Ogochukwu, was two weeks ago found guilty of four charges relating to human trafficking.
He had been accused of forcing a 15-year-old girl into prostitution. The unnamed girl was reportedly given R50 a day for food and a further R100 for every man she was forced to sleep with.
Ogochukwu was also said to have sexually abused the little girl.
She escaped from Ogochukwu in August 2015 and found solace in a church in Rosettenville.
“Clearly what happened to her was cruel, inhuman and degrading and was a violation of the right to human dignity, which is enshrined in our Constitution,” the judge, Majake Mabesele, said in his verdict.
The judge ruled that Ogochukwu took advantage of the teenager who had been homeless since fleeing her Vereeniging home in 2015 after engaging in a fight with her mother.
