The police have arrested a 23-year-old garden egg seller, Sanusi Umar, in Bauchi State for allegedly sodomizing a mentally disabled 10-year-old boy.
The Spokesperson of the Police in Bauchi state, SP Ahmed Wakil told newsmen on Wednesday in Bauchi, said the suspect lured the boy with N30 sweets.
“Officers attached to Operation Restore Peace (ORP) Bauchi State arrested the 23-year-old man on March 28 at 2100hrs.
“The suspect lured the minor with a thirty naira (N30) sweet and asked the victim to accompany him to an isolated area behind the AIB filling station along Kofar Ran and sodomized him,’ he said.
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He said that the minor was taken to the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University Teaching Hospital, where different tests were conducted on him to determine his health status.
The investigation, he said, is still in progress.
He said that the suspect would be charged in court after investigations were completed.
A sodomy law is a law that defines certain sexual acts as crimes. The precise sexual acts meant by the term sodomy are rarely spelled out in the law, but are typically understood and defined by many courts and jurisdictions to include any or all forms of sexual acts that are deemed to be “illegal”, “illicit”, “unlawful”, “unnatural” and/or “immoral”.
Sodomy typically includes anal sex, oral sex, manual sex, and bestiality. In practice, sodomy laws have rarely been enforced to target sexual activities between individuals of the opposite sex, and have mostly been used to target sexual activities between individuals of the same sex.
As of October 2023, 63 countries as well as three sub-national jurisdictions have laws that criminalized sexual activity between two individuals of the same-sex.
In 2006 that number was 92. Among these 63 countries, 41 of them not only criminalized male same-sex sexual activity but also have laws that criminalized female same-sex sexual activity. In 11 of them, it is punishable with the death penalty.
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