According to a reliable information from an eyewitness, a Katsina State Senior Magistrates’ Court has sentenced to 10 months imprisonment, Salima Lawal, who was arraigned for for attempt to sell her 32-day-old twins for N350,000 in December 2017. .
The court, however, gave the accused an option of N10,000 fine. In his judgment on Wednesday evening, the presiding magistrate, Nuradeen El-Laden, explained that he gave Lawal a light sentence in view of the health of the twins and that of the mother herself.
He noted that a woman attempting to sell her children might have been battling abject poverty. El-Laden noted that the convict and her babies had spent a number of days in the prison custody, adding that however the accused had shown remorse for her action.
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