A 14 year-old boy has brutally forced her neigbour's 5-year-old daughter inside the toilet and raped her.
A police prosecutor has told an Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday how a 14-year-old boy raped a 5-year-old neigbour's daughter inside the toilet. The heartless boy who is a student lives with his parents at 2, Kao Close, Santos Estate, Dopemu, a suburb of Lagos. He is now facing a charge of defilement and has been remanded at the Boys Correctional Centre, Isheri, a suburb of Lagos by court order.
According to the police prosecutor, Benedict Aigbokhan, he revealed that the accused committed the offence on Feb. 4, at his residence’s toilet. “One of the neighbours, who heard the cry of the girl, had to rush into the toilet where he apprehended the accused,” the prosecutor told the court.
The offence, according to the prosecutor, contravenes Section 137 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2011. Section 137 prescribes that any person who has sexual intercourse with a child is guilty of a felony and is liable to imprisonment for life. The accused, however, pleaded not guilty.
The Chief Magistrate, Mr Tajudeen Elias, who remanded the accused, over the alleged defilement, adjourned the case to March 23, to listen to the accused’s bail application.