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A 19-year-old man, Andrew
Chinedu, was on Tuesday remanded in prison by an Ogudu Magistrates’ Court in
Lagos State for allegedly raping his two sisters aged eight and six years.
Chinedu, an apprentice, who
resides in Irawo, is standing trial on a two-count charge of child defilement
and sexual assault.
The prosecutor, Insp. Lucky
Ihiehie told the court that the accused committed the offences between the
months of June 2018 and Sept. 2018 at Abayomi Street, Irawo in Ajegunle area of
Ikorodu in Lagos State, NAN reports.
The prosecutor said that 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.
” 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 that the offences
contravened Sections 137 and 259 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015.
He, therefore, asked the court to
remand the accused in prison pending the receipt of legal advice from the DPP’s
office.
The Magistrate, Mrs E. Kubeinje,
while ruling, asked that Chinedu be remanded in prison.
Magistrate Kubeinje instructed
that Chinedu should spend the next 65 days in prison pending the receipt of
legal advice from the State Director of Public Prosecutions (DPPs).
The case was then adjourned until
March 20 for mention.
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