Man Remanded In Ogun For Allegedly Raping Sister-In-Law

A 28-year-old man, Azeez Abdullahi, has been remanded in prison by a chief magistrates’ court on Friday, August 7, for allegedly raping his 12-year-old sister-in-law.
The chief magistrate, Anthony Araba, denied the accused bail and ordered that he should be remanded in Oba Prisons near Abeokuta pending advice from the state director of public prosecutions.

According to Leadership, the prosecutor, Sunday Eigbejiale, told the court that the accused committed the offence sometime in May at 14, Omowe Street, Saraki, Adigbe in Ogun capital.
He said the accused had unlawful carnal knowledge of his 12-year-old sister-in-law.
“My lord, the victim was raped by the accused and she is presently hospitalised.”
Eigbejiale noted that the offence contravened Section 218 of the Criminal Law of Ogun, 2006.
Meanwhile, the counsel to the accused, Babatunde Omirin, urged the court to grant him bail on liberal terms, saying “he will not jump bail.’’

However, the case was adjourned to Friday, September 11, for hearing.
In another development, a 17-year-old student, who lives with his pastor at Akinsola street, Dopemu, a suburb of Lagos, has been accused of attempting to rape a two-year-old girl.
According to a report by NAN, he attempted raping the little girl in one of the toilets of the pastor’s house. The teenager had tried to penetrate the little girl but when he could not, then released semen on her.