Man bags 3 months imprisonment for taking photographs of pregnant women
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By Ugochi Ugochukwu
Abuja, Aug.16, 2017 (NAN) A Karmo Grade 1 Area Court, Abuja, on Wednesday sentenced a man, Alex Owoh, to three months imprisonment for taking photographs of pregnant women.
Owoh, 48, of Dei-dei Pantaker area of Abuja, was convicted after he pleaded guilty to a count charge of public nuisance.
The judge, Mr Abubakar Sadiq, however, gave Owoh an option of N10, 000 fine and warned him to desist from committing crime.
Sadiq said the punishment would have been stiffer if Owoh had not saved the court the pains of protracted prosecution.
He also ordered that the said pictures should be deleted from Owoh’s cell phone before returning it to him.
Earlier, the prosecutor, Florence Auhioboh, told the court that one Mr Chinedu Paul, who resides at Zauda, Abuja, reported the matter at the Gwagwa Police Station on July 23.
The prosecutor said that the convict took pictures of Paul’s pregnant wife and two other women who were in Gwagwa village market to buy foodstuffs on July 22.
Auhioboh said when the convict was accosted, he ran away, leaving his cell phone.
She said the offence contravened Section 183 of the Penal Code.
Owoh, however, begged the court for leniency, saying he was manipulated by the devil.(NAN)
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