Update: Married nursery worker, 20, who had sex with a 13-year-old boy and had his baby, found guilty of three counts of sexual activity with a child

The 20-year-old married nursery worker who had sex with a 13-year-old boy and had his baby is now facing jail after being found guilty of three counts of sexual activity with a child.



Leah Cordice from Windsor, Berkshire, who started sleeping with the boy when she was 17 at that time falsely claimed that the teenager raped her but a jury at Reading Crown Court rejected her claims.



Following the verdict, a judge told the court that if Cordice was a male 'custody would be almost inevitable'.



Judge Peter Clarke QC then told the jury: 'I have got to consider a custodial sentence.



'To be sexist about this, if Leah was a young man of 17 years and the complainant was a 13-year-old girl, the sentence would be almost inevitable as far as custody is concerned.



'It is all very unfortunate for everyone, herself included, but I was struck, as I suspect you were, by her lack of self-awareness of what she was doing to the victim.



'It seems to me that one of the evils here is that, for the rest of his life, the victim will know that that baby girl is laying somewhere that he does not know about and that - I can say as a man - would be as scarring for a father as for a mother. That is a further matter I need to consider and the impact that it has had on him.'



He added: 'I need to know more about you and your present circumstances. You should understand that I have to be considering an immediate custodial sentence.'



According to Mail Online, the judge adjourned the case so that a probation report could be created about Cordice. She had sex with the boy twice a month for a period of time but the jury decided the affair had stopped before Cordice turned 18 years. They acquitted her of two other counts of sexual activity with a child which were alleged to have taken place when Cordice was 18.



The victim is expected to be in court with his parents to see Cordice sentenced next month.

Chinese nationals barred from leaving their apartments in Ogun

Chinese nationals have been barred from leaving their apartments by the Ogun State government in a bid to prevent the spread of coronavirus in the state.



Special Adviser to Governor Dapo Abiodun on Communications, Remmy Hazzan told newsmen that security agents were deployed to the apartment of “returning Chinese nationals" to ensure an effective "self isolation".



Hazzan expressed hope of the action stopping the possibility of any foreigner manifesting signs of coronavirus and not being noticed on time by health officials.



He said;




“What we have done is to effect self-isolation (of returning Chinese nationals) in the places where they live. We have them in quarries; some in farms and the estate in Ogun-Quandong Free Trade Zone, Igbesa, is 100 per cent Chinese.

“These nationals are isolated in these places. As a matter of fact, we have security officials manning the entrances to all these places to forestall any breach.

“We also have people running errands for them (Chinese) to forestall the likelihood of anyone trying to go into neighbouring towns.”

Transgender man demands right to be described to as the father of his child and not mother

A transgender man who has given birth wants to be described to as the father of his child and not the mother as written in the child's birth certificate.



Freddy McConnell, who is a multimedia journalist at The Guardian, says being referred to as a mother was psychologically scarring.







Back in September, a judge ruled against him, after a High Court trial in London, but he has launched an appeal with three appeal judges now considering the case.



At the September ruling, Sir Andrew McFarlane, the president of the Family Division of the High Court and most senior family court judge in England and Wales, ruled against Mr. McConnell.



He concluded that people who had given birth were legally mothers, regardless of their gender, and said there was a 'material difference between a person's gender and their status as a parent'.



But Lord Burnett, the Lord Chief Justice and most senior judge in England and Wales, Lady Justice King and Lord Justice Singh have started analyzing case at a Court of Appeal.



The hearing is due to finish today.



A barrister leading Mr McConnell's legal team told the three judges at the Court of Appeal there were 'clear reasons' why her client should have won the High Court fight.



'Notwithstanding the complexity of the arguments and the issues engaged, there were clear reasons why the claim ought to have succeeded and why (Mr McConnell) ought to have been declared the father or parent of (the child), not the mother,' Hannah Markham QC stated in a written argument.



'It is submitted that the learned judge fell into error in determining the term 'mother' not to be a gendered term.'



She said Sir Andrew had failed to consider whether the current birth registration system was 'fit for purpose'.



'The learned judge was wrong to focus on giving birth as the determining issue when deciding parental role described in an administrative document,' she added.



'In identifying that the issue, in this case, raised important matters of public interest and that there was a pressing need for the government to challenge square on the status of a trans-male person who has become pregnant and given birth to a child, the learned judge ought to have declared where the current law fails to recognise those rights.

Lassa Fever: NCDC confirms 11 new deaths in Nigeria

11 new deaths have been confirmed by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) in the recent Lassa fever outbreak ravaging most states in the country.



The development brings the total number of death recorded to 132. In its report for week 9, NCDC revealed that out of a total of 421 suspected cases, 85 were confirmed and 11 deaths reported from 30 local governments in nine states.







The affected states are Edo, Ondo, Ebonyi, Bauchi, Plateau, Benue, Kogi, Taraba and Kebbi. From week one to nine, a total of 3054 suspected cases, 775 confirmed cases, nine probable and 132 deaths have so far been reported from 118 local governments in 27 states.



Out of the 73 per cent of all confirmed, Edo State has 34 per cent, Ondo State, 32 per cent and Ebonyi State has 7 per cent of the cases.

"Breaking homes is now a trend"" Victoria Inyama slams side chics

Victoria Inyama has slammed women who break families with their sexual prowess.



The former Nollywood actress took to Instagram to call out women who put other "women in tears".



She said women breaking into homes by having sex with the husband has become a trend.



She went on to ask men who entertain mistresses why they bothered to get married in the first place.



Read her posts below.

Arizona state House passes bill banning transgender female athletes from participating in school sports

The Arizona House of Representatives has passed a controversial bill that aims to ban transgender female athletes from participating in school sports.


If signed into law, the ban would apply to all students studying in the state.



The "Save Women's Sports Act," introduced by Republican Rep. Nancy Barto this week would require interscholastic and intramural sports sponsored by educational institutions to explicitly designate sports as for males or females based on a persons' biological sex.







While Barto and others who voted for the bill agree that Is is about keeping a level playing field, opponents argue that it fails to protect LGBTQ kids and transgender youth.



During the hearing, Democratic Rep. Kirsten Engel said, "The impact will not be to protect women's sports, instead it's gonna make women's sports a total battleground of lawsuits."



"It's gonna bring people out of the corners of the field to cast accusations -- the liability here is so broad that I have very severe concerns that some schools will find some excuse to -- simply not have games," she added.



In a statement to ABC News, Barto said: 'This bill is about fairness. That’s it. What is fair on the field, the court, the track, and in the pool.'


Barto cited the biological differences between males and females from lung capacity and muscle mass to testosterone levels, give men "an undeniable physical advantage over women in sports."



"That is why we have separated male and female sports. And that is why women have been so successful in achieving greatness on the field, and all the benefits that go with it," Barto continued. "What has changed is Interscholastic policies allowing biological males identifying as females to compete on women's teams."



The bill would apply to K-12, community college and universities' female teams.

"I've had to go through steps whereas others have taken the elevator up" Burna Boy speaks to GQ Magazine about his career

Burna Boy featured in the popular GQ Magazine where he spoke about his career, being compared to Fela, and more.



Burna sings primarily in pidgin English and Yoruba and this means that many outside Nigeria don't always grasp the totality of his art. But Burna told GQ that he has made peace with that.



He said he'd actually prefers the response to his work be rooted in something deeper than streams, sales, and fluctuating chart positions.



“I don't really have a high regard for numbers, because numbers have no feelings, they have no soul, whereas I do,” he explains. “My ‘numbers’ is the people who have actually felt the feeling that the music is supposed to carry across and in the process received the message."



When asked about being compared to Fela, Burna says: “I don't think anybody in their right mind would compare me to Fela."



He added: “Fela is my inspiration and my childhood hero, so if you think comparing me to Fela is honorable, it's actually not. It actually makes me feel weird. Fela was Fela, and if it wasn't for Fela, there probably wouldn't be any me, so I don't understand the comparison.”



Burna's grandfather managed Fela early in the singer's career and helped form his first band.



When asked if he talks to his grandfather about Fela, he replied: "Every time. Almost every other day."



Asked about his career and the lessons he's learned on his journey, Burna said: “Unlike a lot of other people, I've had to go through never-ending steps to get here, whereas other people have taken the elevator up."







He added: “I've always been too heavy for that kind of elevator, so I had to take the stairs. Now I know every floor and everything on every floor.”