Teenage housewife jailed for cheating on her husband

A Magistrate Court in Abuja, yesterday convicted Bisala 19, after she was found guilty of having “unlawful” sexual relationship with her 34-year-old
lover (names withheld).

Bisala was convicted after she pleaded guilty to the charge of adultery, for which she was arraigned by the police, while the lover pleaded not guilty.
She said: “My Lord, I am guilty of cheating on my husband. I want the court to pardon me.”

Magistrate Fati Tafida ruled: “Based on the admittance of the accused to committing the crime, and the evidence before the court, she is, hereby, sentenced to three months in prison, with an option of N100,000 fine, as a first offender.”

Earlier, police prosecutor, Insp. Phillip Appolos, had said that the convict’s husband, reported the matter at the Life Camp Police Station on September 1.

He alleged that the convict’s husband caught her in the act in a guest house in Life Camp, Abuja and immediately alerted a police patrol team attached to
Life Camp Division.
He said the team, led by Insp. Abdul Ogbe, arrested the two lovers and brought them to the police station.

Appolos said that the offence contravened the provisions of Section 387 and 388 of the Penal Code.

Magistrate Tafida admitted the convict’s lover to bail in the sum of N100,000, with a reliable surety, and adjourned the case to September 23, to enable the
court continue with the trial of the lover.