CRIMINAL CODE ACT

Section 222: A. Causing or encouraging the seduction or prostitution of a girl

2004Section 222 of 575Federal Republic of Nigeria

under sixteen
(1) Whoever, having the custody, charge or care of a girl under the age of sixteen
years, causes or encourages the seduction, unlawful carnal knowledge or prostitution
of, or the commission of an indecent assault upon, such a girl, shall be liable to
imprisonment for two years.
(2) For the purposes of this section, a person shall be deemed to have caused or
encouraged the seduction, unlawful carnal knowledge or prostitution of, or the
commission of an indecent assault upon, a girl who has been seduced, unlawfully
carnally known, or indecently assaulted, or who has become a prostitute, if he has
knowingly allowed her to consort with, or to enter or continue in the employment of,
any prostitute or person of known immoral character.

Cite this section

Section 222, CRIMINAL CODE ACT (2004).

https://repo.podus.ai/laws/criminal-code-act/section/222-2/