A father, Segun Durojaiye and his
brother,Emmanuel Durojaiye, who allegedly raped his 16-year-old daughter for
four years were on Monday charged with incest before a Yaba Chief Magistrates’
Court, Lagos State.
Segun, 52, who resides at
Baba-Benja Street, and Emmanuel, 44, of No. 10, Durojaiye St., all in Oreyo
area of Ikorodu, Lagos State, are facing a charge of defilement.
The prosecutor, ASP Ibijoke
Akinpelu, told the court that the accused committed the offences between 2014
and 2017 at their residences.
Akinpelu said the father started
sleeping with his daughter in 2014 after she confined in him about her uncle’s
inappropriate show of affection.
He said after the death of the
victim’s stepmother in the same year, she was asked to go and stay a few weeks
with her uncle and he began to molest her sexually.
“The victim broke her silence
after she had had a series of abortions and was helplessly losing weight from
the trauma.
“The case was reported at a
police station and the accused were immediately arrested,” she said.
The prosecutor said the offences
contravened Section 137 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015 (Revised).
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)
reports that Section 137 prescribes life imprisonment for child rape.
The accused, however, pleaded not
guilty to the charges.
In her ruling, the magistrate,
Mrs Oluwatoyin Oghre, granted the accused bail in the sum of N1 million each
with two sureties in like sum.
She said one of the sureties
should be a Level 15 officer who has a titled document or a traditional ruler.
Oghre said the sureties should
show evidence of three years’ tax payment to the Lagos State Government (LASG).
She adjourned the case until
March 12 for mention
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