Convicts during the sentencing at the GBV Court, Juba/Photo by Daniel Michael/25.10.2022

The Gender-Based Violence court in Juba has sentenced a man to 18 years imprisonment, and another to eleven years for aiding him to abduct a University of Juba girl in a forced marriage.

32-years-old Ring Deng will spend 10 years in imprisonment for kidnapping, 7 years for attempted rape, and another year for causing hurt to the 26-year-old campus woman.

“Ring sentenced to ten years imprisonment for kidnapping survivor to compel her marriage in contravention of section 273 of the penal 2008, ” Judge Amun shared the verdict with Eye Radio’s newsroom Tuesday.

“Two; Ring is sentenced to seven years in prison for attempted rape in contravention of section 247 rate together with section 63 of the penal act 2008,”

“Three; Ring is sentenced to one year in imprisonment for voluntarily causing hurt to the survivor in contravention of section 233 of the penal act of 2008.”

While his associate, Yak Ring Tong, 27, is sentenced to 10 years imprisonment for aiding the victim’s abduction.

“Yak is sentenced to ten years imprisonment for the joined act of kidnapping the survivor to compel her marriage in contravention of section act 273 read together with section 48 of the penal act of 2008.”

“Yar is sentenced to one-year imprisonment for voluntarily holding hurt to the survivor without provocation in contravention of section 232 of the penal act 2008.”

Both convicts, according to the court presiding judge Francis Amun, committed the crime in March this year.

Prime culprit Ring Deng is fined two million South Sudanese Pounds while Tong is fined one million pounds as a reparation to Victim Jane, not her real name.

The court gave the convicts 15 days to appeal against the verdict.

The Gender-Based Violence Court, supported by the United Nations Development Program – UNDP has so far convicted dozens of men since its establishment in 2020.