Court remands teenager for allegedly defiling 10-year-old girl

An Ikeja Magistrates’ Court on Thursday remanded a 15-year-old boy (name withheld) in a Correctional Home for allegedly defiling a 10-year-old girl.

The Magistrate, Ejiro Kubeinje, who did not take the juvenile’s plea, ordered that the case file be sent to the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) for advice.

Kubeinje adjourned the case until July 19 for the DPP’s advice.

The defendant, who lives at Oke-Odo area of Lagos State, is being tried for defilement.

Earlier, the prosecutor, ASP. Bisi Ogunleye, told the court that the defendant committed the offence in May at his residence.

He said the teenager unlawfully had sexual intercourse with the girl.

“The parents of the girl interrogated their daughter after it was discovered that she had been defiled.

“She mentioned the defendant’s name as the perpetrator,” the prosecutor said.

He said the offence contravened Section 137 of the Criminal Law of Lagos, 2015.

The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Section 137 stipulates life imprisonment.