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Prosecutors Seek Death Penalty For Teen Accused Of Killing Husband by matrixx9(m): 9:28pm On Oct 30, 2014 |
Nigerian prosecutors said on Thursday they may seek the death penalty against a 14-year-old girl accused of murdering her 35-year-old husband by putting rat poison in his food. The trial of Wasila Tasi’u, from a poor northern Nigeria family, has sparked a heated debate on the role of underage marriage in the conservative Muslim region, especially whether an adolescent girl can consent to be a bride. Prosecutors at the High Court in Gezawa, outside Nigeria’s second city of Kano, filed an amended complaint that charged Tasi’u with one count of murder over the killing of Umar Sani two weeks after their April wedding in the village of Unguwar Yansoro. Lead prosecutor Lamido Abba Soron-Dinki said that if proved, the charge is “punishable with death” and indicated the state would seek the maximum penalty. Tasi’u entered the court wearing a cream-coloured hijab and was escorted by two policemen. Her parents, who have condemned their daughter’s alleged act, were in the public gallery — the first time the three were in the same room since Tasi’u’s arrest in April, her legal representatives said. The English-language charge sheet was translated into Hausa for the accused by the court clerk. Tasi’u refused to answer when asked if she understood the charges. The case was adjourned for 30 minutes so the charges could be better explained to the defendant, but when the alleged offences were read again Tasi’u stayed silent, turned her head to the wall and broke down in tears. “The court records (that) she pleads not guilty,” Judge Mohammed Yahaya said, apparently regarding her silence as equal to a denial of the charges and adjourned the case until November 26. Activists, including in Nigeria’s mainly Christian south, have called for Tasi’u’s immediate release, saying she should be rehabilitated as a victim and noting the prospect that she was raped by the man she married. But in the north, Islamic law operates alongside the secular criminal code, a hybrid system that has complicated the question of marital consent. The affected families have denied that Tasi’u was forced into marriage, arguing that girls across the impoverished region marry at 14 and that Tasi’u and Sani followed the traditional system of courtship. According to Nigeria’s marriage act, anyone under 21 can marry provided they have parental consent and so evidence of an agreement between Tasi’u and her father Tasiu Mohammed could undermine claims of a forced union. But defence lawyer Hussaina Aliyu has insisted the case is not a debate about the role of youth marriage in aMuslim society. Instead, she has argued that under criminal law a 14- year-old cannot be charged with murder in a high court and has demanded that the case be moved to the juvenile Source: http://..com.es/2014/10/prosecutors-demand-death-penalty-for-14.html |
Re: Prosecutors Seek Death Penalty For Teen Accused Of Killing Husband by utytill(m): 9:34pm On Oct 30, 2014 |
D man no see him mate?nonsense.sha na their church causam. |
Re: Prosecutors Seek Death Penalty For Teen Accused Of Killing Husband by khattab02: 10:38pm On Oct 30, 2014 |
This is a serious case. Was it a delibrate attemp to kill her husband? And why? These are yet to be known. A friend of mine told me a similar sour story about 2 years ago in lag, where a woman's husband and his gangs came to rob the woman. The woman tried to defend herself on the process of she killed her husband. Thereafter, the family of the husband accused the woman of delibrately killing her husband. |
Re: Prosecutors Seek Death Penalty For Teen Accused Of Killing Husband by Horus(m): 2:49am On Nov 01, 2014 |
[img]http://1.bp..com/-vEpHdWtbwW0/VFN0m39kIUI/AAAAAAABed0/0D3p7TWUazQ/s1600/Part-PAR-Par7949851-1-1-0.jpg[/img] Sani Garba, holding a picture of his 14-year-old daughter-in-law, Wasila Tasi'u [img]http://3.bp..com/-rEilqc7Zpm0/VFN080gdk7I/AAAAAAABed8/Nq-et-PmEyQ/s1600/ab38129c52f79a2096469179e1f437366e6540c3.jpg[/img] Sani Garba, 55, stands in the abandonned bedroom of his 14-year-old daughter-in-law Wasila Tasi'u |
Re: Prosecutors Seek Death Penalty For Teen Accused Of Killing Husband by bunmioguns(m): 3:49am On Nov 01, 2014 |
they should please temper justice with mercy |
Re: Prosecutors Seek Death Penalty For Teen Accused Of Killing Husband by NagodeAllah1(m): 3:55am On Nov 01, 2014 |
khattab02: Did she give him rat poison by mistake? She should get a trial that is just, but if guilty of murder then needs to face it. Being 14 does not mean you can murder. |
Re: Prosecutors Seek Death Penalty For Teen Accused Of Killing Husband by sandradayz(f): 4:54pm On Nov 29, 2014 |
God will punish them. If she is given a death sentence |
Re: Prosecutors Seek Death Penalty For Teen Accused Of Killing Husband by PapiWata: 6:45am On Dec 07, 2014 |
By poisoning a child abuser and killing him like the filthy rat that he is, this child victim of modern-day slavery performed a vital service to society, sending an evil creature to hell where he was long overdue. Rather than being tried as a criminal, this child escapee from slavery should be considered as a future recipient of a humanitarian award, for her excellent job of showing how to rid the world of truly bad people, one at a time. 1 Like |
Re: Prosecutors Seek Death Penalty For Teen Accused Of Killing Husband by SeverusSnape(m): 7:01am On Dec 07, 2014 |
I don't even know what to say about this issue, But they caused it for themselves, How can a man marry a girl that is So young to be his daughter?... I'm sure the man has children that are older than this girl. These northerners has got to change their mentality, for goodness sake this is the 21st century. This is my verdict though; The girl should be left alone, but her life will not be safe there. |
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