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  • Driver sent to prison for defiling girl, 10

    An Ikeja Magistrates’ Court  yesterday remanded a 42-year-old driver, Omoruyi Aderemilekun, in Kirikiri Prisons  allegedly defiling a 10-year-old girl.

    Magistrate B. O. Osunsanmi declined to take the defendant’s plea, pending advice by Lagos State  Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP).

    Prosecuting Inspector Raphael Donny said the defendant committed the offence on January 21 at 263, Ijesha Road, Ijeshatedo, Surulere, Lagos.

    He alleged that the defendant unlawfully had carnal knowledge of the minor.

    “The defendant came to eat for the second time in the shop where the girl was helping her sister to sell food.

    “After he finished eating, he asked the girl to follow him to collect the money inside his vehicle, claiming he did not have money in his pocket.

    “On getting to the vehicle, he forcefully pushed the girl inside. She shouted, but nobody was around to rescue her.

    “The defendant covered her mouth with a rag, forcefully removed her pant and had sex with her,” the prosecutor alleged.

    He said the minor’s sister at that moment called out her name when she took long in coming back.

    “When the girl’s sister was shouting her name, searching for her, the girl forcefully removed the rag from her mouth and raised the alarm, which attracted her sister.

    “Her sister rushed to the vehicle in front of her shop and saw her sister being abused.

    “The sister called the police and the defendant was arrested,” the prosecutor said.

    The case continues on April 3.

  • Man remanded for ‘defiling’ girl, 7

    A 34-year-old man, Tunde Eyifunjowo,  was yesterday arraigned before an Ikeja Magistrates’ Court for allegedly defiling a seven-year-old girl.

    Magistrate B.O. Osunsanmi ordered him remanded in Kirikiri Prison after refusing to take his plea.

    She ordered that the accused be kept in custody, pending advice by the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP).

    Prosecuting Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Ezekiel Ayorinde had told the court that the accused committed the offence last November at his home.

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    He alleged that the accused defiled the seven-year-old daughter of his co-tenant.

    “The accused called the girl inside his room, gave her biscuit and had sex with her.

    “The girl, who is living with her grandmother, told her what the accused did to her.

    “She said that was the fourth time the accused would make love to her.

    “Her grandmother reported the case and the accused was arrested,” Ayorinde said.

    The case continues on January 21.

  • Islamic teacher held for defiling girl, 5

    A 43-year-old Islamic Studies teacher, Abdulsalam Salaudeen, has been arrested by the police for allegedly defiling a five-year-old girl.

    Salaudeen, who lives at 16, Awoyemi Street, off Igando Road, Ikotun, Lagos, was allegedly recorded on video while engaging in the act.

    He was described as the girl’s teacher.

    A good Samaritan last Friday took the video evidence to the headquarters of the Lagos State Police Command.

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    After watching the video, Police Commissioner Imohimi Edgal directed undercover operatives attached to the State Intelligence Bureau to arrest the suspect and hand him over to the Gender Section for investigation.

    The operatives arrested him near a mosque in Igando.

    In a statement yesterday, police spokesman Chike Oti said the Officer-in-Charge, the Gender Unit, Abimbola Williams, confronted Salaudeen with the video showing him defiling the minor.

    “On seeing himself captured like an actor in a movie, the suspect broke down in tears and owned up to the crime,” Oti said.

    The suspect, he added, would be arraigned after investigation.

  • Boy, 14, arraigned for allegedly defiling girl, 4

    A 14-year-old boy has been arraigned for allegedly defiling a four-year-old girl.

    The suspect, who was remanded by an Evboriaria Magistrates’ Court in Edo State, was arraigned on a one-count charge punishable under Section 218 of the Criminal Code Cap 48 Vol. II Laws of the defunct Bendel State of Nigeria, as applicable in Edo State.

    He pleaded not guilty.

    Presiding Magistrate C. E. Oghuma granted him bail at N50, 000 with two sureties.

    She said the sureties must be his parent or guardian, show evidence of tax payment and live within the court jurisdiction.

    The suspect is remanded in a juvenile facility until the bail condition is perfected.

    Magistrate Oghuma transferred the case to the Family Court and adjourned the matter till December 3.

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  • Man bags life jail for defiling girl, 12

    A Lagos High Court yesterday sentenced a 28-year-old man, Kingsley Inyang, to life imprisonment for defiling his church member’s 12-year-old daughter.

    Justice Sedoten Ogunsanya found him guilty of having unlawful sexual intercourse with the girl, a Junior Secondary School (JSS) Two pupil, contrary to Section 137 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015.

    Justice Ogunsanya held that the prosecution team led by Mr Adebayo Haroun proved its case beyond reasonable doubt.

    She found that Inyang’s defence was inconsistent with the evidence of his girlfriend, who stated that on the day of the incident, he spent only 15 minutes with her, contrary to Inyang’s alibi that he was with her the whole day.

    Inyang, of 16, Adetunde Arogundade Street, Fagba, a Lagos suburb, was arraigned on March 3, 2017.

    According to the prosecution, he committed the offence at his home.

    He pleaded not guilty and was granted bail.

    According to the prosecution, Inyang committed the offence on July 26, 2015.

    During the trial, the girl told the court that the first time Inyang defiled her was on a Sunday evening after a fellowship service.

    She said he threatened to assault her if she told anyone.

    She claimed three days later, as she and her younger brother passed his house on their way home from Bible study, he beckoned on her again.

    “He sent my brother outside and forced me to make love to him and said that I should not let anybody know, otherwise he was going to beat me,” she said.

  • Teenager remanded in correctional home for defiling girl, 6

    A 15-year-old, who allegedly defiled a six-year-old girl, was yesterday remanded at a Correctional Home on the orders of an Ikeja Magistrates’ Court.

    Magistrate B.O. Osunsanmi, who gave the ruling, said the teenage boy should be kept at the correctional centre, Ikeja, pending advice from the State Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP).

    The juvenile, who lives at Ijegun, Ikotun, a Lagos suburb, is being tried for indecent treatment of a child and defilement.

    According to the Police Prosecutor, Ezekiel Ayorinde, an assistant Superintendent (ASP), the accused committed the offence on May 12 at his parent’s residence.

    He said the accused defiled his neighbour’s six-year-old daughter.

    “The accused called the girl into his room, locked the door, removed her clothes and underwear and defiled her. Neighbours noticed blood coming out of the girl’s private parts and when she was questioned, she told them what the accused did to her.

    “The case was reported to the police and the teenager was arrested,” Ayorinde said.

    The offences contravened Sections 135 and 137 of the Criminal Law of Lagos state, 2015 (Revised).

    The case was adjourned till July 9.

     

  • Arabic teacher denies defiling girl, 3

    An Arabic teacher, Adekunle Isiaka, yesterday at a Lagos High Court denied defiling a three-year-old girl.

    Isiaka, 36, opened his defence to a one-count charge of sexual assault contrary to Section 259 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015.

    According to the prosecution, at about 10am on October 24, 2015, the defendant fingered the girl – her neighbour’s child – and ejaculated in her private parts and on her dress.

    But Isiaka, who was arraigned on February 27, 2017, pleaded not guilty.

    Testifying in Yoruba, while being led in evidence by his counsel, Mr Lanre Egberungbe, the defendant told Justice Oluwatoyin Ipaye that he was falsely accused.

    He said on the day of the incident, he returned from teaching his pupils around 1pm and rushed home to use the toilet. The child’s mother, he claimed, pursued him to the toilet.

    Speaking through an interpreter, Isiaka said: “Because of my religion, we don’t talk inside the toilet. She stood by the toilet door and was shouting, asking me what I poured in her daughter’s vagina. But the victim’s uncle and other tenants in the compound said whatever it was, it didn’t look like sperm”.

    He claimed that he was beaten and videod by the police three days later, while being forced to make statement to a non-Yoruba speaking policewoman.

    Under cross-examination, the defendant added: “I have been living in that house for five years prior to the incident; I am not related to the child’s parents and I was even the one that named the child when she was born”.

    Isiaka said he was surprised the day a doctor from the Mirabel Centre at Lagos State Hospital Teaching University (LASUTH) tendered a medical report showing that the child was defiled.

    Responding to a claim that he ran to the toilet to clean himself up after committing the crime, Isiaka said: “I did not defile her. I was pressed and ran to take my kettle to use the toilet. I was surprised when the victm’s mother was shouting that I defiled and poured sperm on her.”

    Justice Ipaye adjourned till July 10, for adoption of final written addresses.

  • Two arrested for defiling girl in Ogun

    THe police have arrested two people for defiling 14-year-old girl in Obantoko, Odeda Local Government Area of Ogun State.

    Abiodun Ishola, 19 and Kehinde Oloyede, 18, were arrested on Saturday following a complaint by the victim, who claimed to be a hairdressing apprentice.

    The victim was going to her boss’ shop.  Abiodun, who was sitting in front of his father’s house told her about the ongoing environmental sanitation exercise in the state and advised her to wait in his father’s house pending when the sanitation would be over.

    It was learnt that while the waiting lasted, Abiodun, cleverly took her bag and kept it inside a room but when the girl wanted to leave, he told her to go pick her bag from the room, not knowing that his friend Kehinde, was lurking around. The duo forcefully defiled her.

    Police spokesperson Abimbola Oyeyemi, said it was the screaming of the girl that attracted people who rescued her.

    Oyeyemi said the Divisional Police Officer, Obantoko Division, Veronica Osakwe, and some detectives on receiving the complaint, went to the scene and arrested Isola and Oloyede.

    According to Oyeyemi, the suspects had confessed to committing the crime while the victim has been taken to the general hospital for medical examination.

    The suspects would be transferred to the Anti-Human Trafficking and Child Labour Unit of the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department for further investigation and prosecution.

     

  • Driver remanded for ‘defiling’ girl, 13

    A commercial driver, Sunday Elo, 42,  was yesterday remanded at Kirikiri Prisons, Lagos, by an Ikeja Magistrates’ Court for allegedly defiling in 13-year-old girl.

    Magistrate B.O. Osunsanmi did not take his plea.

    She ordered that he be kept in custody pending advice from the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP).

    Prosecutor Ezekiel Ayorinde said the accused committed the offence between March 27 and April 7 at his home.

    He said the driver unlawfully had sexual intercourse with the 13-year-old girl.

    “The accused, who is without a wife and children, kept the girl in his home for days and had carnal knowledge of her,” Ayorinde said.

    He said when the girl’s parents discovered that their daughter was missing; they searched for her.

    “When the parents discovered that their daughter was nowhere to be found, they went to one of her friend’s home.

    “The friend took them to the house of the accused and met both of them naked in the bedroom.

    “The girl told her parents that the accused had been sleeping with her since she was 10 years old,” the prosecutor added.

    He said the case was reported to the police and the accused was arrested.

    Ayorinde said the offence contravened Section 137 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015 (Revised), who lives in Olateju, Mushi

     

  • Man, 35, bags life jail for defiling girl, 8

    An Ikeja High Court yesterday sentenced a 35-year-old man, Okechukwu Nwachukwu, to life imprisonment for defiling an eight-year-old girl.

    Justice Josephine Oyefeso held that as a paedophile Nwachukwu ‘’must be kept away’’, citing a Supreme Court judgement.

    The convict was arraigned  on a two-count charge of defiling two girls aged seven and eight.

    He was convicted for the defilement  of the eight-year-old girl

    During his trial, one of the girls testified that she was standing on the road around their house waiting for her school bus when she saw the convict who she referred to as “Uncle Okey” coming.

    She said she pleaded with him to carry her up to see if her school bus was coming.

    Instead, the convict, she said,  carried her into the kitchen of an uncompleted building and raped her..

    A doctor at Mirabel Centre, Lagos,  who examined the girls, confirmed that one of them had bruises in her private parts. The other, he said, did not  have;  but added that the absence of bruises did not mean that there was no penetration or rape, especially when the act had taken long like in one of these cases.

    Nwachukwu denied defiling the girls.

    But he admitted touching one of the girls’ lap, removing her pant and penetrating her with his finger.

    He did not call any witness.

    In her judgement, Justice Oyefeso, standing on the Supreme Court verdict, held  that “violating a child was barbaric, immoral and devoid of any reason whatsoever’’