An Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ court in Lagos, on Thursday remanded a 40-year-old man identified as Dominic Bassey, for defiling his neighbour’s 9-year-old daughter.
Bassey was remanded in Kirikiri Prisons, pending advice from the State Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP).
The Chief Magistrate, Mr P.E. Nwaka, directed that the case file be sent to the DPP for advice and fixed July 30 for case to be mentioned.
The Prosecutor, Insp. Christopher John, told the court that the suspect committed the offence on June 17 at his residence; No 54, Surulere St., Afromedia, Okokomaiko, Lagos State, and is being tried for rape.
John said that the girl and other children in the compound went to Bassey’s apartment to sleep as they usually do. He said, “Bassey, however, woke the girl up, undress her and applied cream on her private part, defiled her and promised to buy her a dress.
“Bassey also told the girl not to tell anyone, but when her mother came back from market, she saw blood stain on her daughter’s dress and asked her questions.
“The girl then narrated everything that Bassey did to her.”
The prosecutor told the court that the offence contravened Section 137 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015.
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