Former First Lady of Rivers State and judge of the Rivers State High Court, Justice Suzette Eberechi Wike, has advocated the amputation of body parts belonging to rapists. The former first lady made this declaration on Tuesday, October 24, while speaking to Channels Television at the 2nd National Conference of Family Court Judges, Magistrates, and other Family Court Practitioners in Port Harcourt, the state capital. She emphasized that the current punishment given to rapists who defile minors isn’t drastic enough and that a harsher punishment like amputation would deter these sexual offenders from molesting minors.
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In Justice Suzette Eberechi Wike's words: "The society should step up punishments for people who defile children beyond life imprisonment or a 14-year jail term. We should do much more. I think we should do something that will be really drastic, that will make them think twice before they do that. I cannot think of anything better than having legislation that whatever part of your body you use on a child while defiling the child, that part should be cut off. If it is your finger, if it is your mouth, if it is your private part. I think men will take it more seriously when you come up with such legislation. I hope a man in the House of Reps or Senate sponsors a bill like that.”
Watch a video of Justice Eberechi Wike giving a recommended punishment for rapists:
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