19-Year-Old Nigerian Man Remanded In Prison For Allegedly Defiling Sisters Aged 6 And 8

19-Year-Old Nigerian Man Remanded In Prison For Allegedly Defiling Sisters Aged 6 And 8

A19-year-old man, Andrew Chinedu, has been remanded in prison over
his alleged defilement of two of his sisters aged eight and six years.

Chinedu was yesterday arraigned before the Ogudu magistrate court
where the magistrate, Mrs E. Kubeinje, ordered that he be remanded in
prison for 65 days pending the receipt of legal advice from the State
Director of Public Prosecutions, DPPs. 

Chinedu, an apprentice who resides in Irawo, was dragged before
the magistrate court on a two-count charge of child defilement and
sexual assault.

The police prosecutor, Inspector Lucky Ihiehie, told the court
that the accused committed the offences between the months of June 2018
and September 2018 at Abayomi Street, Irawo, in Ajegunle area of Ikorodu
in Lagos State.  Ihiehie said the Lagos State Domestic and Social
Violence Office, which initially handled the case and confirmed the
violation of the girls, referred the father to report the case to the
Police. Ihiehie said that the accused lived in the same compound with
the parents of the girls. According to him, when the older of the
siblings was questioned, she claimed that the accused normally calls her
into his room when her parents were not around to have sex with her.

“Any time I refused, he would beat me.  He normally promises to buy
me sweet but he never did,” Ihiehie quoted the child as saying

The prosecutor also said that the six-year-old girl corroborated what
her sister said and told the Police that the accused always had sex
with her whenever their parents were not around and beats them if they
refused.

“He would tell her he wants to show her something and carry her to
his bed and remove her cloths. She said it was when her elder sister
fell sick and their father took them to the hospital that she opened up
to him.” Ihiehie said

He added that the offences contravened Sections 137 and 259 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015.

The Magistrate who refused the plea bargain of the suspect, adjourned the case until March 20 for mention.