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An Ikeja Magistrates’ Court on Friday ordered that a
50-year-old trader, Sanni Arowolo, charged with defiling and impregnating a
14-year-old girl, be remanded in Kirikiri Prisons, pending legal advice.
Magistrate B.O Osunsanmi, who did not take the plea of the
defendant, ordered that the police to send the case file to the Lagos State
Director of Public Prosecutions (DPPs).
Osunsanmi adjourned the case until August 28 for mention.
The Prosecution Counsel, ASP Ezekiel Ayorinde, told the
court that the defendant committed the offence on Feb. 8 at his residence.
Ayorinde alleged that Arowolo who rented out a shop to the
girl’s mother, defiled the minor and got her pregnant.
He alleged that the mother of the girl reported the case.
The offence, he said, contravened the provisions of Section
137 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015 which prescribed life imprisonment
for defilement.
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