A father, 56-year-old Sunday
Adimagwu, and his son, Kenneth, 21, were on Monday brought before an Ikeja
Chief Magistrates’ Court for allegedly raping a 12-year-old girl.
The father is being tried for
raping his own daughter, while the son, was arraigned for allegedly raping the same
girl (his step-sister).
Both the father, a driver, and
the son, a trader, live at 4,Ilogbo Street, Ajangbadi, Okokomaiko, a suburb of
Lagos, on the Lagos-Badagry Expressway.
The police prosecutor, Clifford
Ogu, told the court that the offences were committed between September 2016 and
April 2017 at the apartment of the accused.
Mr. Ogu, an inspector, said the
12-year-old girl had been staying with her father and the step-mother following
a separation between her mother and the father.
“Both have sexually assaulted the girl on different occasions; father and son took turns to defile her.
“When the girl had the opportunity, she ran to her mother’s house and told her what she has been going through — persistent sexual assault”, he said.
Outraged by the former husband’s
rape of the girl she had for him, the woman reported the case at the police
station and the man was immediately apprehended, Mr. Ogu also told the court.
The offence contravened Section
259 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015 (Revised).
The duo, however, pleaded not
guilty to the charge.
In her ruling, the Chief
Magistrate, Taiwo Akanni, granted the accused bail in the sum of N250,000 each
with two sureties each in like sum.
The case has been adjourned until
June 19 for mention.
Evil and cursed family. May God have mercy and deliver them
ReplyDeleteOh my God, I hate to hear such news, it saddens my heart, what is this world turning into, may God deliver us from this evil
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