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  • Edo: Father of three jailed for defiling minor

    Edo: Father of three jailed for defiling minor

    A secondary school teacher and father of three, Rotimi Olayemi, has been sentenced of two years imprisonment for indecently assaulting a 13-year old female student inside the school premises.

    Rotimi, aged 47, was jailed by an Egor Magistrates Court which found him guilty of the two count charge preferred against him.

    The convict was arrested in 2014 after some neighbors noticed how female students spent longer hours in his office.

    Prosecutor Osasu Ewemade, informed the court that the convict committed the crime on May 26, 2014 at his office in King of Kings College.

    Ewemade said that the convict usually invite his victims to his office where he do hug, kiss, fondled and put his hand on their private part.

    The convict pleaded not guilty to the four count charges bothering on unlawful assault.

    Presiding Magistrates, Mrs. Igho Braimoh, sentenced Rotimi to one year on each count or an option of N50,000 on each of the count.

    The jail term is to run concurrently.

  • Edo: Prophet remanded for defiling daughter 

    Edo: Prophet remanded for defiling daughter 

    An Ogbeson Magistrate Court has remanded one Prophet Benjamin Bernard to prison custody for allegedly defiling his seven years old daughter.

    Prophet Benjamin, aged 41, is one of the presiding pastors of Destiny Explosion Ministry located in Benin City.

    He was alleged to have committed the incest on 26th January 2016.

    The victim was his third daughter

    Prophet Benjamin pleaded not guilty to the offence. 

    The victim during her testimony by the prosecuting Counsel from the state Ministry of Justice, Kenneth Ugiagbe, told the court that her father used a white handkerchief to clean her private part after committing the act.

    She said her father warned her not to mention the act to anyone or he would kill her. 

    Presiding Magistrate, Mrs. Taye Omoruyi ordered the accused remanded in prison custody and adjourned the case to March 16 for further hearing. 

  • Defilement: Court to try ExxonMobil staff 

    Defilement: Court to try ExxonMobil staff 

    Justice Adedayo Akintoye of a Lagos State High Court, Igbosere, has been appointed to hear a four-count charge bordering on defilement filed by the police against James Ikenna Onuoha, a staff of oil exploration multinational, ExxonMobil.

    Onuoha was arraigned on January 14 before a Magistrates’ Court in Igbosere, on allegations that he had forcible sexual intercourse with the 14-year-old niece of his tenant.

    The offence allegedly occurred at about 11:30am on January 4, in the teenager’s uncle’s home at Idowu Estate, Ike-Ira Nla, Ajah, Lagos.

    He pleaded not guilty and was granted bail in the sum of N2 million and two sureties in the like sum.
    The case also was referred to the Lagos State Office of the Directorate of Public Prosecution (DPP) for advice.

    At the resumption of the matter before Chief Magistrate Mrs. O. A. Ogunbowale Tuesday, prosecuting Inspector Eshiet Eshiet notified the court of the presence of a senior state counsel, Mr. Jamiu Alako.

    Alako, from the Office of the Public Defender (OPD), announced that the DPP’s advice recommending the defendant for trial was out.

    He added that the case had been transferred to the High Court, Igbosere.

    “My information is that the case has been filed before Justice Adedayo Akintoye at the High Court,” Alako said.

    The defendant’s counsel, Mohammed Adamu, applied for an order barring the office of the DPP from making further public statements on the case which could erode the constitutionally guaranteed presumption of innocence of his client.

    He said: “We apply that the DPP’s office should desist from going to the press.

    “We ask for an order that they should desist from going to the press.

    “Any media house that does that, we’ll take it up from there.”

    Responding, the Magistrate advised him to bring his application before the High Court.

    She requested Mr. Alako to present the court with documents confirming the transfer of the case from the Magistrates’ Court.

    The case was adjourned till April 19.

  • Police officer arrested for defiling seven-year-old girl

    Police officer arrested for defiling seven-year-old girl

    Ebonyi State Police Command Monday arrested one of its officers Ndubuisi Ewerem for allegedly defiling a 7 year old girl, Chiamaka Nwankwo.

    The Police officer who has been detained at the Central Police Station, (CPS) Abaakaliki allegedly defiled the little girl and daughter of his neighbour at his residence at No. 29 off Nibo street.

    The Nation learnt that the suspect lured the victim by telling her to buy Onion for him and as soon as the girl came into his apartment to deliver the said item, he used the opportunity to defile her.

    While residents within the neighborhood alleged that the victim was raped by the policeman others accused the suspect of being in the practice of sexually abusing teenagers.

    The Commissioner of Police, CP Peace Ibekwe Abdallah confirmed the ugly episode but said investigation is still ongoing.

    She insisted that whether the victim was raped or fingered, the act allegedly perpetuated by the policeman was a crime punishable under the law.

    She stressed that the suspect would be punished if found guilty of the crime.

    The command, she maintained, was committed to sanitizing the force and promised that acts contrary to the laws guiding the constitution of the Nigerian police were decisively dealt with.

    She said: “The case was reported to the Central Police Station, CPS Monday by the parent of the victim and going by the statement of the victim, she was fingered by the policeman. We don’t tolerate such act in the Nigerian police force. Whether rape or not, any act of defilement is a very serious crime which must be dealt with. The suspect is under detention.”

    According to the Commissioner of Police, the result of the medical test conducted on the victim would ascertain whether she was raped or not as investigation into the case was still on.

  • Father docked over alleged defilement of daughter

    Father docked over alleged defilement of daughter

    A 35-year-old father of three, was on Tuesday arraigned in an Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court in Lagos, for allegedly defiling his six-year-old daughter.

    The accused, Harrison Agu, who resides at No.23, Rotimi Omotosho St., Isheri Osun, Lagos, is facing a charge of indecent treatment of a minor.

    Although the accused entered a not guilty plea, the prosecutor, Insp. Simon Imhonwa, told the court that the accused had regularly defiled his 6-year-old daughter within the last 36 months.

    “The accused began the assault in 2013 when the child’s mother was away for the compulsory one year NYSC.

    “It was during this period that the child fell ill with a serious infection in her genitals for the first time.

    “Thereafter, the mother of the child observed that the child’s genitals regularly produced a foul smell with discharges,” the prosecutor said.

    Imhonwa said that the mother took the child to the hospital where it was confirmed that the child had been defiled.

    According to the prosecutor, the six-year-old told her mother that her father always asked her to remove her pants and then deep his fingers into her private part.

    “The mother said her child told her that Agu always asked her to remove her jeans and pants and then he will put his hand in her ‘bum bum’ (virgina) and if she refuses, he beats her,” Imhonwa said.

    The prosecutor said investigation revealed that the child had been physically and emotionally abused since she was aged 3.

    He said that the offence contravened Section 135 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State 2011.

    The Magistrate, Mrs Bola Osunsanmi, admitted the accused to bail in the sum of N500, 000, with two sureties in like sum.

    The magistrate ordered that the file be forwarded to the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) for advice.

    The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the offense carries seven-year imprisonment as penalty if found guilty.

  • Defilement: Court to protect 10-year-old girl

    An Ogudu Magistrate’s Court in Lagos has ordered a Probate Officer to find out whether a 10-year-old girl allegedly defiled by her mother’s neighbour, Mr Mayowa Adeyemi, is safe at her residence.

    The girl’s mother, Mrs. Omowunmi, told the court that she and her daughter still live in the same building with the accused.

    Adeyemi, she said, lives a few doors from her single room apartment, adding that their paths cross on daily.

    She was, however, interrupted by the defendant’s counsel, Mr Kayode Rufus, who informed the court of the innocence of his client.

    Rufus told the court that he even had a credible witness – the defendant’s landlord – who was willing to testify on his behalf.

    However, Magistrate Sule Hamzat stopped his address on the grounds that proceedings had not reached that stage.

    Hamzat said: “My concern at this stage is the victim’s safety. The court needs to find out whether the the victim is protected at her home.”

    She ordered the Probate Officer to locate the victim’s residence and find out whether it was safe enough for her to reside there.

    Mayowa was first arraigned by the police on August 24 at an Ikeja Magistrate’s court in Ogba, on charges on child molestation and defilement, but he was granted bail and the case file was transferred to the Ogudu Division of the court.

    The Nation learnt that the accused was arraigned following the outcome of an examination carried out on the victim at the Mirabel Centre, Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH), Ikeja.

    From the Mirabel Centre, the matter was referred to the Lagos State Domestic and Sexual Violence Response Team (DSVRT).

    The DSVRT, a department in the Lagos State Ministry of Justice, has offered to provide free legal aid for the victim.

    Magistrate Hamzat fixed November 11 for the probate officer’s report.

  • Pastor arraigned for defiling teenager

    Pastor arraigned for defiling teenager

    A 40-year-old Pastor, Abraham Akpan, was arraigned in an Ikeja Magistrates’ Court on Friday over the defilement of a teenager.

    Akpan of No. 39, Hassan Ogunmola St., Ijaiye, a suburb of Lagos, is facing a three-count charge bordering on rape.

    The prosecutor, Sgt. Jimah Iseghede, told the court that Akpan committed the offence between Aug. 27 and Aug. 29 at his residence.

    He told the court that the parents of the 16-year-old girl took her to the church for deliverance where Akpan allegedly defiled her.

    “At the deliverance session, when nobody was there, the pastor raped the girl severally,” he said.

    The prosecutor said the offence contravened Sections 135, 137 and 141 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2011.

    Akpan, however, pleaded not guilty to the offence.

    The Chief Magistrate, Mr Tajudeen Elias, adjourned the case to Sept. 21 for ruling on the bail application for Akpan.

  • Man jailed for defiling neigbour’s daughter

    Man jailed for defiling neigbour’s daughter

    An Ikeja Magistrates’ Court on Friday sentenced a 25-year-old unemployed man, Ogboru Godspower, to 14 years imprisonment for defiling a 13-year-old daughter of his neighbour.

    The Chief Magistrate, Mr Tajudeen Elias, sentenced Godspower after he pleaded guilty to the offence.

    “The accused is hereby sentenced to 14 years imprisonment to serve as deterrent to others and to reform him to be a law abiding citizen,” he said.

    The convict was arraigned on Aug. 14 on a one-count charge of defilement.

    The convict, lives at 30, Egbin Sand filled Ijede, Ikorodu in Lagos.

    The prosecutor, Jimah Iseghede, had told the court that the offence was committed on Aug. 8 at Godspower’s residence.
    Iseghede said that the victim was going to take her bath when the accused waylaid her, removed her towel and defiled her.

    “It was a neighbour who saw the accused in the act that alerted the whole house,’’ he said.

    The prosecutor said that the offence contravened Section 137 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2011.

  • Lagos: Proprietor charged with rape of two pupils

    Lagos: Proprietor charged with rape of two pupils

    A primary school proprietor, Joseph Ogunleye, was on Thursday charged before a Yaba Chief Magistrates’ Court in Lagos over alleged defilement of two pupils in his school.

    Ogunleye, 56, whose address is unknown, is standing trial on a charge of defilement.

    According to the prosecutor, Insp. Rita Momah, the accused committed the offence on June 27 at Ijegun, Ikotun, Lagos.

    She alleged that the accused unlawfully defiled an eight-year-old girl and a 10-year-old girl who were pupils in his school.

    “A nearby shop owner heard the two girls telling their friends about how their school proprietor touched their private parts and that they cannot tell their parents.

    “The 10-year-old explained how the accused had canal knowledge of her, while the 8-year-old also admitted that he did the same thing to her.

    Ogunleye, however, pleaded not guilty to the charge.

    The Magistrate, Mrs O.A. Erinle, granted bail to the accused in the sum of N500,000, with two sureties in like sum.

    The case was adjourned till Oct. 26 for trial.

  • Woman seeks justice over daughter’s defilement

    A woman whose three years old daughter was defiled by a 30-year old neighbour, Peter Ewanta, has cried out for justice.

    The woman who gave her name as Nkechi Amaechi said the suspect’s family members refused to pay for medical treatment for her daughter.

    Mrs. Nkechi said her daughter has been manifesting several symptoms since she was forcefully defiled.

    The incident occurred at Ewanta Street off New Lagos Road in Benin City.

    In a chat with newsmen, Mrs. Nkechi said the suspect lured her daughter into his room under the pretext of buying biscuit for her and defiled her.

    She said the suspect was a closed door neighbour.

    “I saw my daughter the way she was walking. When I checked, I saw that her vagina as very wide. It was wider than that of a woman that just gave birth.”

    “The man was begging and wanted to fight me. I had to call the police. I don’t have money now to take care of my daughter. I want help from people for proper medical treatment.”

    “My daughter has not been able to pass out excreta since Sunday when the incident occurred. Her stomach is now swelling.”

    Spokesman for the Edo Police Command, DSP Stephen Onwochei, confirmed the incident and said the suspect has been arrested.