2 friends in court over alleged rape of neighbour’s daughter
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Rape
By Moronke Boboye
Lagos, Nov. 9, 2017(NAN)Two friends who allegedly raped their neighbour’s daughter were on Thursday arraigned in an Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court.
The two unemployed defendants, Ibrahim Hassan, 29, and Ojo Ishola, 30, who reside at Bammeke area, Shasha, a suburb of Lagos, were arraigned on a count charge of rape.
The Prosecutor, Sgt. Raphael Donny, told the court that the offence was committed on Oct. 23 and Oct. 29 at the same address with the defendants.
Donny said that the defendants on different occasions sexually molested the 14- year-old girl in their rooms.
According to the prosecutor, the minor later told her elder sister when she could not bear it anymore.
He added that the defendants were arrested and charge to court.
The offence, the prosecutor said, contravened Section 259 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015.
The defendants, however, pleaded not guilty to the charge.
The Chief Magistrate, Mrs Folakemi Davies-Abegunde, granted the defendants bail in the sum of N200, 000, each, with two sureties each in like sum.
Davies-Abegunde adjourned the case until Dec.18 for mention. (NAN)
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