Woman sentenced to 12 years imprisonment for stealing five children in Anambra

 Victoria Enwerem (Anosike), 42, was found guilty of kidnapping five kids from Onitsha and was sentenced to several jail sentences by a court hearing cases involving children, sexual assault, and gender-based violence in Awka, Anambra State.

Enwerem was charged with three offenses, each punishable under the Criminal Code, the Laws of Anambra State of Nigeria, 1991, and the Violence Against Persons (Prohibition and Protection) Laws of Anambra State, 2017, when he was arraigned in court. The three counts were conspiracy to steal children, fraudulently enticing away and harboring children, and forcibly separating the children from their parents' legal custody.

The five kidnapped kids ranged in age from 9 to 7, 3, 10, and 8 years old.

While rendering her decision in the case, Chief Magistrate Genevieve Osakwe, who was presiding, declared that the defendant had been found guilty of all three allegations leveled against her. The Chief Magistrate stated that there was overwhelming evidence against the defendant, and the prosecution had established its case beyond a reasonable doubt based on the defendant's own oral testimony, the plaintiff witnesses' testimony, and other materials presented to the court.

She sentenced Enwerem to 4 years in jail on count 1, 8 years in prison on count 2, and a term of 6 months in prison on court 3, all of which would run consecutively and without the possibility of a fine.

Apparently, the cops Vicky Enwerem (Anosike), the prosecutor in the case, conspired with Oluchi Ahamefula, who is still at large, in September 2022 to kidnap children from the well-known MCC Junction in Onitsha, Anambra State, with the intention of taking the children somewhere else. However, her luck ran out when she was apprehended by Nigerian Police Force officers at Oraifite in Anambra State during a stop and search operation.

She was given bail, but she fled bail and was subsequently found and arrested in a rural area of Ebonyi State with two additional little children that she is accused of stealing from their parents.