Gender Based Violence special court, officially inaugurated in Nov. 2020 during #16DaysofActivism - courtesy

The juvenile court has sent two teenagers to a reformatory facility in Juba for killing a 17-year-old boy in a gang-related fight.

Each of the juvenile offenders will spend five years in a reformatory school to atone for their crime.

According to the presiding judge Francis Amum, the two minors whose names he withheld are age 16 and 17.

They committed the crime at the Juba’s IDPs camp in June 2021. The teenagers fatally stabbed the deceased below his chest and at the back with knives.

The victim has been identified as Gai Elijah. He died from the injuries immediately after being rushed to the hospital.

Adding that ” the guardians of juvenile offenders K and B jointly have to pay 51 heads of cattle or the equivalent in SSP at the  market rate to the next of kin of the deceased, Gai Elijah as blood compensation by means of civil proceedings.

Reading out the ruling, judge Francis Amum said “Juvenile offender k and B have been sent to the reformatory school establishment to spend 5 years in correctional service to be served starting from the date of his remand on 14 June2021.”

Judge Amum advised that “the  family of the convict have the right to enjoy an automatic right of appeal against both implication and the period of reformatory within15 days of the judgment delivered”