Nigeria, Nov. 12 -- A Family Court in Calabar, Cross River State, has sentenced a 38-year-old man to life imprisonment for raping a 10-year-old girl.

Justice Blessing Egwu of Family Court 2 delivered the judgement on Tuesday, relying on Section 33 of the Cross River State Child Rights Law, 2023.

The convict, Nsikak Okon, was a customer of the survivor's mother, according to James Ibor, a lawyer and co-founder of the Basic Rights Counsel Initiative (BRCI), who disclosed the conviction in a Facebook post on Wednesday.

Mr Ibor told PREMIUM TIMES the offence occurred on 12 July 2025 at Technical College Road, Ikot Effanga, Mile 8, Calabar.

He explained that the survivor's mother discovered the child was bleeding and, after making inquirie...