Unemployed man, 33, remanded for allegedly defiling 5-year-old girl

A 33-year-old man has been remanded in a correctional facility by an Ikeja Magistrates' Court in Lagos for defiling a 5-year-old girl.

The man, identified as Salim, is being tried for defilememt.

The Magistrate, Mrs E. Kubeinje, who did not take the defendant’s plea, directed the police to send the case file to the state Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) for advice, Daily Post reports.

She ordered that the defendant be kept in the Kirikiri Correctional Centre, pending the DPP’s advice.

The Prosecutor, ASP Bisi Ogunleye, told the court that the defendant committed the offence on June 20 at his residence in Ikotun, a suburb of Lagos State.

He said that the defendant lured the girl into his apartment and forcefully had carnal knowledge of the minor.

He said that a neighbour who saw the man having carnal knowledge of the girl, alerted her mother, said Daily Post.

Ogunleye said the girl’s mother reported the case to the police, leading to the arrest of the defendant.

The prosecutor said that medical reports revealed that the minor had been defiled.

NAN reports that defilement violates Section 137 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015, and is punishable with life imprisonment.

The case was adjourned until August 26.