A Kaduna Chief Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday ordered that a trader, Joseph Alhassan, 51, who allegedly defiled a 16-year-old girl be remanded in a correctional centre.
The police charged Alhassan, who resides in Shagari Low Cost, Barnawa, Kaduna State, with sexual assault.
Magistrate Benjamin Hassan, who did not take Alhassan’s plea, ordered the police to return the case file to the Kaduna State Director of Public Prosecutions for legal advice.
Hassan adjourned the case until November 25 for hearing
Earlier, the Prosecution Counsel, Inspector Chidi Leo, told the court that Alhassan committed the offence on October 28 at his residence.
The prosecutor alleged that Alhassan lured the girl into his apartment and defiled her.
The offence, Leo said, contravened the provisions of Section 260 of the Penal Code Law of Kaduna State, 2017.
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