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  • Banker, 55, defiles girl, 8

    AN Ikeja Magistrates’ Court yesterday remanded in prison a 55-year-old banker, Titilayo Olatunji, following his arraignment for allegedly raping an eight-year-old girl.

    Magistrate B. O. Osunsanmi refused to take the defendant’s plea when the case was called.

    She ordered that Olatunji be kept in custody, pending  advice by Lagos State Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP).

    Osunsanmi adjourned till April 14.

    Prosecuting Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Ezekiel Ayorinde said the defendant committed the offence on February 19 at his home.

    He alleged that the defendant defiled his neighbour’s eight-year-old daughter.

    “The defendant called the girl into his room on the pretext of sending her on an errand.

    “When the girl entered, he locked the door and raped her.

    “The girl told her mother when she returned from work that she was feeling pains in her private parts.

    “The mother asked her who touched her sexual organ and she narrated to her mother what the defendant did to her,” the prosecutor said.

    Ayorinde said the girl was taken to a hospital where it was confirmed that she had been defiled.

    He said the case was reported and the defendant was arrested.

  • Church worker, 32, defiles girl, 6

    AN Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court yesterday remanded a 32-year-old church worker, Joseph Chidi, in prison, following his arraignment for allegedly defiling a six-year-old girl.

    Magistrate P. E. Nwaka said he would remain in Kirikiri Prisons until the court receives Lagos State   Director of Public Prosecution’s (DPP’s)  advice on the case.

    He adjourned till March 21.

    The accused’s plea was not taken when the charge was read to him.

    Chidi, who lives at 18, Bello-Wosho Street, Ikeja, is being tried for child defilement and indecent assault.

    Prosecuting Inspector Christopher John said the defendant committed the offence on February 11 at 5:30pm, at a private primary school in Shogunle, Ikeja.

    John alleged that Chidi, who works at the Technical Department of the church located inside the school compound, indecently assaulted the girl by fingering her.

    The prosecutor added that the defendant also had unlawful sexual intercourse with the minor.

    He said the victim was waiting for her mother to pick her in school, when the defendant told her to assist him put some materials in the church.

    The prosecutor said the girl’s mother later discovered that she had been defiled while bathing her.

    “The girl narrated everything Chidi did to her mother,” John said.

     

  • Guard 33, defiles girl, 8

    An Ogudu Magistrates’ Court yesterday remanded a 33-year-old guard, Paul Audu, following his arraignment for allegedly defiling his friend’s eight-year-old daughter.

    Magistrate E. Kubeinje remanded him, pending advice by the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP).

    The court did not take his plea.

    Audu, who lives at Adegun Street, Ikorodu, Lagos is standing trial on a two-count charge of child defilement and sexual assault.

    Prosecuting Inspector Lucky Ihiehie urged the court to remand him.

    He said the accused committed the offence between last year September and December at Adeyemi Street, Ikosi, Ketu, Lagos.

    Ihiehie said the minor’s father reported the case to the police.

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    He alleged that the accused inserted his fingers in the girl’s private parts many times and later had sex with her.

    The prosecutor said the minor wrote a letter to her father, explaining her ordeal in the hands of the accused.

    He said the complainant, a widower, allowed Audu to stay with his family whenever he was off duty, to help him take care of the daughter.

    He quoted the minor as saying: “I always feel pain, but I didn’t tell my daddy because I thought he wouldn’t believe me.

    “Whenever the accused sleeps with me, he gives me N500 so that I won’t tell my daddy.”

    Ihiehie said the offence contravened sections 137 and 265 (1) of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015.

    The case continues on March 27.

  • Suspected herdsman defiles girl, 14, in Ebonyi community

    A suspected Fulani herdsman has allegedly defiled a 14-year-old girl, Favour Okugbo, at Umuifi Anioma-Isu in Onicha Local Government Area of Ebonyi State.

    The pupil of Union Secondary School at Agueke-Isu had been admitted at an undisclosed medical facility for treatment.

    A community leader Festus Nwachukwu said Fulani herdsmen in Umuifi Anioma-Isu threatened the peace and the agricultural revolution of the state government.

    He noted that the herdsmen had been destroying farm produce and threatening the peaceful coexistence of the residents.

    According to him, even though the suspect has been arrested by the police, his action remains an abomination to the land.

    Nwachukwu said: “We are going to carrying out a cleansing ceremony on the land so that it will remain fertile.

    “The Fulani herdsmen are destroying our farms. If you want to talk to them, they will threaten you with knives. Our major occupation is farming, but we can no more farm because of this menace. The herdsmen are fond of using their cows to destroy our farmlands and crops.

    “The government policies on agriculture are being threatened in Onicha Local Government Area. I came back from church on April 9 and learnt that this girl was raped by a Fulani man when she went to the farm to get vegetables. She was threatened that if she refused, he would kill her. He used the knives to beat her on the back and then raped her.

    “What has happened is an abomination on our land. The man has damaged the fertility of the land and we are going to use cows, fowls and many cartons of beer and palm wine to bless the land.”

    Favour, who said she had been sad over the incident, urged the government to probe the activities of Fulani herdsmen in the community to protect the girls from sexual assault.

    She said: “I went to the farm to fetch vegetables when I was attacked by a Fulani herdsman. He came to our farm with his cows. He asked me if I had some water and food and I said no. He went to get more cows to surround me and told me that if I allowed him to have sex with me, he would give me N700. I refused and started running away. He chased me and hit me with the back of his cutlass. I fell and he raped me.

    “I feel sad. I want the government to come to my aid as young girls like me are no longer safe to go to the farm and help our parents. The government should arrest Fulani herdsmen and prosecute them according to the law. Every Fulani herdsman caught doing bad things should be made to leave our land.”

    A member of the State Committee on Herdsmen, Mr. Amechi Oken, hailed Governor David Umahi for putting machineries in place to checkmate the excesses of herdsmen.

    He said the committee usually visited locations where skirmishes between herdsmen and farmers occurred to resolve any misunderstanding.

    Police spokesperson Loveth Oda, an Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP), said the command had not received any report on the incident.

    She promised to investigate the matter and get back to our reporter.

    The Nation could not get her response last night.

     

  • Septuagenarian ‘defiles’ girl, 13, in Ogun

    The Police in Ogun have arrested a septuagenarian, Adefuye Emmanuel Teslim, for allegedly sexually abusing a 13-year-old girl.

    The incident occurred at the Parapete area of Ago-Iwoye in Ijebu-North Local Government Area.

    Adefuye was said to have lured the girl into his apartment last Sunday, sexually assaulted her, before threatening to kill her if she told anyone.

    The command’s Public Relations Officer, Abimbola Oyeyemi, said the victim’s mother, Mariam Kareem, reported the case.

    “When the victim could not cope with the pains in her private parts due to forcible penetration by the suspect, she disclosed it to her mother, who subsequently alerted the police at the Ago-Iwoye Division,” Oyeyemi said.

    The Divisional Police Officer (DPO), Ade Adedoyin, led detectives to the suspect’s home where he was arrested,

    The girl, Oyeyemi added, was taken to a general hospital for examination and the result confirmed that she had been sexually assaulted.

    The case was then transferred to the Anti-Human Trafficking and Child Labour Unit of the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department (SCIID).

     

  • 70-year-old guard ‘defiles’ girl, 11

    70-year-old guard ‘defiles’ girl, 11

    A 70-year-old security guard, Morounmubo Ayinde, has allegedly defiled an 11-year-old secondary school pupil in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital.

    The police have arrested the suspect.

    Ayinde, a gatekeeper at Okelele Secondary School, Ilorin allegedly committed the offence last weekend on the school premises.

    He was alleged to have lured the victim, who approached him for a cup of water, to a building where he had carnal knowledge of her.

    The Nation learnt that the suspect was caught by a member of the Okelele community, who shouted, which attracted the attention of other residents.

    Ayinde was paraded yesterday at the Ministry of Education and Human Capital Development, Ilorin.

    He confessed to have defiled the victim.

    The suspect blamed the devil for the act.

    He said: “I have never done this kind of thing since I was posted from the ministry to work as a security guard in the school. I have worked there for four years.”

    The Permanent Secretary, Hajia Maryam Ayo Garuba, said a report from a medical facility the victim was taken to, confirmed that the suspect defiled her.

    She directed that Ayinde, a father of four, be handed over to the police for investigation and prosecution.

    Garuba said his trial would act as a deterrent to others.

    She alleged: “It is unfortunate that a security guard we posted to a school is the one perpetrating this evil. Imagine this 70-year-old man, who should guard a school, raping a pupil.

    “I don’t know what this world is turning to.”

  • Boy, 19, defiles girl, 12

    A Surulere Chief Magistrates’ Court in Lagos on Monday granted bail to a teenager for allegedly defiling a 12-year-old.
    Chief Magistrate Ipaye Nwachukwu ordered that the 19-year-old a cured, Peter Edo, should produce two sureties in the like sum.
    She directed that one of the sureties must be the accused’s relative, while the other must be a community leader or a cleric with evidence of tax payment.
    Edo, who lives on Ilogba Road, Ajangbadi, Lagos, pleaded not guilty to the one-court charge.
    According to prosecuting police Sergeant Anthonia Osayande, Edo defiled his neighbour’s daughter shortly after she returned from school on January 9 at their residence.
    Osayande said the accused invited the minor into his apartment and had sexual intercourse with her.
    She said the girl told her parents what happened.
    The case has been adjourned till March 7.