Sokoto Chief Magistrate Court on Thursday sentenced one Fokade Adeshina, a medical staff of Usmanu Danfodiyo University Teaching Hospital, to 18 months imprisonment or a fine of 100,000.
Adeshina was first arraigned in 2021 on a one count-charge of causing grievous injury.
She was accused of using a needle to pierce the eyes of a newborn baby of a staff of the National Open University, Sokoto Centre to avenge a carryover.
The incident was said to have occured in June last year when the accused was undergoing a programme at the Sokoto campus of the university.
Delivering the judgement, Chief Magistrate Hafsat Lamido, ruled that the accused was found guilty of the said offence and sentenced her to 18 months imprisonment with a fine option of N100,000.
The prosecution counsel, Sufyanu Umar, expressed satisfaction with the judgement.
The mother of the baby, Asma’u Ahmad Tijjani, also hailed the judgement which she said had brought succour to their family.
All efforts to get the reaction of the hospital proved abortive, as the spokesperson of the hospital, Mansur Wadata, was not responding to calls.
