An
allegedly incestuous father, 56-year-old Sunday Adimagwu, and his son,
Kenneth, 21, were on Monday brought before an Ikeja Chief Magistrates’
Court charged with 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.” 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.
(NAN)
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