A 27-year-old male nurse, Olugbenga Isaac has been arraigned
in an Ikeja Magistrates court on Tuesday for or allegedly drugging and raping a
19-year-old girl. Isaac, a resident of Ajah area of Lagos is being tried for
rape.
The prosecutor, Insp. Clifford Ogu told the court that the
accused, who committed the offence on Sept.15 at Onipanu, Lagos, unlawfully had
sexual intercourse with the 19-year-old girl.
“The accused had sexual intercourse with a woman without her
consent,” he said. Ogu said that the complainant was sick and called the
defendant, a nurse, to treat her.
“The complainant had toothache, she called the nurse to
administer drugs on her, instead the accused injected her with some substance
suspected to be sleeping injection. The complainant slept off and the accused
raped her and left. The complainant regained consciousness after several hours
and was bleeding from her private part, it was dawned on her that she had been
raped,” he said.
The offence, Ogu said, contravened Section 258 of the
Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2011. Section 258 provides that if convicted of
the offence, the accused is liable to life imprisonment.
The accused denied committing the offence, while the
Magistrate, Mrs T. Akanni granted him bail in the sum of N200,000 with two
sureties in like sum and adjourned the case till Nov. 30 for mention.
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