A 60-year-old man, Abdulahi Mohammed has been arrested and charged before an Ogba Magistrates’ court for allegedly raping a 13-year-old girl repeatedly.
The suspect had lured the teenager into his home at Bankole Agagu Street, Oke Aro, a boundary town between Lagos and Ogun states, and forcefully penetrated her.
The sexagenarian, afterwards, warned the victim not to tell anyone.
Luck, however, ran out on him after the girl exposed him.
Her parents were said to have noticed her awkward movement caused by an injury she sustained during the penetration.
When she was questioned, she narrated how Mohammed had been forcefully having sex with her for months (from 2015 into 2016), P.M News reports.
Mohammed was then arrested and consequently charged for rape.
Following his arraignment, the accused pleaded not guilty to two-count charge under the Criminal Code.
The presiding Magistrate, T. A. Elias granted him bail in the sum of N3 million with two sureties in like sum.
Elias adjourned the matter till 11 April, 2016, ordering that he be remanded in prison custody at Kirikiri until he fulfills his bail conditions.
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