NAN-H-14
Defilement
By Moronke Boboye
Lagos, Aug. 22, 2017 (NAN) A 36-year-old man, Olamilekan Adebayo, was on Tuesday charged before an Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court for allegedly defiling his neighbour’s daughter.
The accused, a trader who resides at 15, Fashola St., Dopemu, a suburb of Lagos, is being tried for defilement.
The prosecutor, Insp. Clifford Ogu, told the court that the accused committed the offence on Aug. 1 at the residence of the accused.
Ogu said that the accused sent the girl, a 12-year-old, on an errand and on her return; he shut the door at her and defiled her.
“The girl told the mother some weeks later when she could no longer bear the pain,’’ he said.
Ogu added that the case was reported at the police station which led to arrest of the accused.
He said that the offence contravened Section 137 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015.
The accused, however, pleaded not guilty to the charge.
The chief magistrate, Mrs Taiwo Akanni, granted the accused to a bail of N250, 000 with two sureties in like sum.
Akanni adjourned the case until Sept. 18 for mention. (NAN)