NAN – An Abule Egba Magistrates’ Court in Lagos on Tuesday, March 18, 2014 ordered one Taiwo Olubunmi, 45, to be remanded in prison custody until March 26 pending his conviction for sexually abusing an under-aged girl.
The Magistrate, Mr Tajudeen Elias, gave the order after Olubunmi, an estate agent, pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting his friend’s under-aged daughter.
Elias adjourned the case to March 26 for sentencing.
Olubunmi, who lives at 7, Fagbemi St., Meiran, was arraigned on a four-count charge bordering on child defilement and sexual assault.
The prosecutor, Insp. Rachael Williams, told the court that the offence was committed between November 2013 and March 11, at the complainant’s residence in Meiran.
She said that the accused, being a friend to the girl’s father, usually visited the victim’s home after school hours anytime his friend and wife were not around to have canal knowledge of the 13-year-old girl.
Williams said that the girl told her father but he ignored it because he did not believe his close friend could do a thing like that.
She said that it was the girl’s elder sister who caught the accused in the act and raised alarm.
The offence, according to the prosecutor, contradicts the provisions of Sections 137, 259, 261 and 263(1) of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2011.
The accused pleaded guilty to the charges.
