The Magistrate, Mrs Ejiro Kubeinje, of the Ikeja magistrates’ court has ordered that a 15-year-old boy should be remanded at the Federal Correctional Centre for Boys at Adigbe, Abeokuta, Ogun State pending advice from the Director of Public Prosecution for allegedly defiling 12-year-old girl.
Kubeinje did not take the plea of the accused and adjourned the case to June 28.
Earlier, the prosecutor, DSP Kehinde Ajayi, told the court that the teenager committed the offence on May 15, on Akanni Showunmj Street, Mafoluku, Oshodi, Lagos.
DSP Ajayi said the teenager defiled the girl by inserting his manhood into her private part in contravention of Section 137 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015.
According to the prosecutor, the girl’s mother reported the case to the police.
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