Teenage Boy remanded in Prison custody for allegedly defiling 5-year-old minor

Teenage Boy remanded in Prison custody for allegedly defiling 5-year-old minor

Teenage Boy remanded in Prison custody for allegedly defiling 5-year-old mino

Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday, ordered that a 16-year-old, be remanded at Adigbe correctional home, Abeokuta for allegedly defiling a five-year-old girl.

Chief Magistrate, E.Kubeinje, ordered that Alabi be kept at the correctional home pending advice from the state Director of Public Prosecutions, (DPP).

The court, however did not take the plea of the defendant and adjourned the case until  Oct. 15, for mention.

The Prosecutor, Insp John Iberedem, had told the court that the defendant committed the offence sometime in August at Poopola Street, Ikotun, Lagos.

Iberedem alleged that the defendant sexually assaulted the victim.

The alleged offence contravenes Section 137 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Section 137 states that the defendant is liable to life imprisonment if found guilty of the offence of sexual  intercourse with a child. (NAN)