The Violence against Persons (Prohibition) Act, 2015 has recorded its first casualty as a Federal Capital Territory High Court sitting in Kubwa, Abuja has sentenced a housewife, Mrs. Onyekachi Okafor, 29, to 9 months in prison for violating aspects of the Act.
A Chinese man allegedly raped his housemate, locked her in a suitcase after beating her unconscious and then abandoned her in a local park in China's Hunan Province, authorities have said.