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Conviction Nigerian juju (trafficking) Juju and oath systems Ikeja, Lagos State, Nigeria · 2018

Nigeria: herbalist sentenced to fourteen years for sexually assaulting a ten-year-old brought to him for epilepsy treatment

Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

herbalist

Organization

No organization assigned

Spiritual nexus

The victim's mother placed her under Shina's care specifically as a herbalist treating her epilepsy. He used the ongoing-treatment framing — telling the mother the child needed to stay longer 'to complete her healing' — to isolate the child from her family and commit the assault.

  • Spiritual healing or treatment

Evidence structure

Proceedings

  1. 2025-02-25 · plea bargain, conviction and sentencing

    Lagos State Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court, Ikeja, Nigeria. Segun Shina was originally charged with defilement under section 262 of the Criminal Laws of Lagos State, 2015, which carries a potential life sentence. Following a plea bargain, the charge was amended to attempted sexual assault by penetration, to which he pleaded guilty. He was sentenced to 14 years' imprisonment, backdated to his 16 November 2018 arrest, barred from contact with the victim's family, and ordered registered as a sex offender.

Documented coercion mechanisms

  • treatment relationship used to isolate a vulnerable child from her mother
  • claim that continued treatment ('a few days to complete her healing') required the child to remain with him

Primary record

Sources

national press sentencing report Leadership (Nigeria), 'Court Jails Herbalist 14 Years For Sexually Assaulting Minor' (2025).

Reports the Lagos State Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court in Ikeja sentenced herbalist Segun Shina to 14 years' imprisonment, backdated to his 16 November 2018 arrest, after a plea bargain reduced his charge from defilement to attempted sexual assault by penetration. States the 10-year-old victim, who suffered from epilepsy, was brought to Shina by her mother for treatment; he gave the child something to drink and told the mother she needed to remain with him 'for a few days to complete her healing,' during which he sexually assaulted her.

national press sentencing report Vanguard News (Nigeria), 'Herbalist jailed 14 years for attempted sexual assault on minor' (25 Feb. 2025).

Confirms the Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court sentencing of Segun Shina to 14 years for attempted sexual assault on the 10-year-old epileptic victim, and that the plea bargain reduced the original defilement charge.

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