40 Year Old Butcher Remanded For Allegedly Defiling His 14-Year-Old Stepdaughter

 

A 40-year-old butcher, Tunji Adeniran, who allegedly defiled his 14-year-old stepdaughter, was on Wednesday remanded in a custodial centre by a yaba Chief Magistrates Court sitting in Yaba, Lagos.

The police charged Adeniran was charged with defilement by the police. Chief Magistrate, P.E. Nwaka, did not take the plea of Adeniran for want in jurisdiction. Nwaka ordered that Adeniran be remanded in the Ikoyi Custodial Centre, Lagos State, pending legal advice from the State Directorate of Public Prosecution (DPP). Nwaka adjourned the case until February 18.

Earlier, the prosecution counsel, ASP Thomas Nurudeen, told the court that Adeniran committed the offence sometime in January, at No. 1, Sadiku Street, Ilasamaja area of Lagos. Nurudeen said that the minor told her school counsellor that her stepfather defiled her. He said that the counsellor reported the case to the Lagos State Ministry of Youth and Social Development who took her to the police. The offence, he said, contravened the provisions of Section 137 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015.

 [NAN]