An Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Court on Monday, January 8, 2024, remanded a 28-year-old man, Agboola Adebayo, in a correctional centre for defiling a 9-month-old baby.
The Lagos State government
arraigned Adebayo, whose residential address was not provided, on a two-count
charge of defilement and causing grievous harm to the baby.
The defendant pleaded guilty to
the charge.
Justice Rahman Oshodi
thereafter remanded Adebayo at the correctional facility and adjourned the case
till March 25, 2024, for a hearing.
Earlier, the state counsel,
Bukola Okeowo, told the court that Adebayo committed the offence on March 23,
2023, in the White Sand Area of Ijora, Badiya, Lagos.
Okeowo submitted that the
defendant defiled the baby by having unlawful sexual intercourse with her.
The prosecutor also said that
the defendant unlawfully caused grievous harm to the child by inflicting serious
injuries on her vagina.
The offence contravenes the
Criminal Laws of Lagos State (2015) and is punishable by life imprisonment.
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