Two teens were sentenced to 24 months in a juvenile corrective home by an Abeokuta Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday for stabbing a kid.
The children denied the two-count accusation of assault and creating a breach of the peace.
Magistrate Olajumoke Somefun, who delivered the verdict, stated that the prosecution had established beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendants were guilty as charged.
Ms Somefun ruled that they be held in Borstal home correctional center for 24 months without the option of paying a fee.
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The lads committed the act on April 19, at 10:00 a.m., at Railway, Lafenwa area in Abeokuta, according to the prosecution counsel, Olakunle Shonibare.
Mr Shonibare said that they tried to extort money from him and stabbed him in the head with a broken bottle, causing him physical harm.
He went on to say that the two prisoners also broke bottles in the neighborhood, which he said was likely to provoke a breach of peace.
The offence, according to the prosecutor, was in violation of sections 249 and 355 of the criminal code of Ogun, 2006.
