A Federal High Court sitting in Uyo has sentenced a Swedish-Nigerian woman, Stephenie Isaksson, 43, to four years in imprisonment for trafficking a one-year-six-months old child.
The Court presided over by Justice Fatun Riman charged Isaksson on a two- count charge bordering on fraud and being in possession of the baby subject to exploitation contrary to section 13(2)(b) of trafficking in persons (prohibition) Enforcement and Administration Act 2015.
The convict who hails from Mbiaya, Uran local government area of Akwa Ibom state was reportedly at the Swedish Embassy.
Isaksson, who was arrested at the Embassy while trying to obtain the necessary papers for the child, was said to have been handed over to the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) in 2018 for prosecution.
Delivering the judgement with charge number FHC/UY/108C/2019, Justice Fatun Riman for count one, sentenced the convict to a term of two years or pay a fine of 250,000.
On count two, she was sentenced to a term of two years or pay a fine of N250,000, noting that the sentence will run concurrently while the fine is accumulative.
