A Kaduna Chief Magistrates’ Court, on Wednesday, sentenced a 34-year-old tailor, Blessing Dogo, to one year in the correctional centre for stealing children’s wears worth N900,000.

Chief Magistrate Ibrahim Emmanuel sentenced Dogo after she pleaded guilty to the offence.

Emmanuel, however, gave the convict an option of a N50,000 fine and ordered her to restitute N900,000 to the complainant, Sarah Elisha.

Earlier, the Prosecutor, Insp Chidi Leo, told the court that the complainant, Sarah Elisa, of Ungwan Pama, Kaduna, reported the matter at the Sabon Tasha Police Station on Oct. 21.

Leo said that the complainant reported that on the fateful day, the defendant walked into her shop on the pretext of buying an item but stole children’s wear valued at N900,000.

He said that during the police investigation, the defendant was invited for questioning and admitted to stealing the clothes.

However, the prosecutor said that all efforts to recover the clothes from her had proved abortive.

Leo said the offence contravened the Penal Code of Kaduna State, 2017.