19 YEAR OLD DOCKED FOR DEFILING 5 YEAR OLD

An Ikeja Chief Magistrates' Court on Wednesday
remanded a 19-year-old student , Joseph Uram a,
in prison for pleading guilty to defiling a
neighbour's five-year-old daughter.
The Chief Magistrate, Mr Tajudeen Elias, ordered
the remand of the accused at the Kirikiri Prisons
and adjourned the case to Aug. 1 for facts and
sentencing.
The accused, a student, who lives at Papa Ashafa
area of Agege, a suburb of Lagos, is being tried
for alleged defilement.
The prosecutor, Sgt. Rapheal Donny told the court
that the offence was committed on June 22 at the
residence of the accused.
Donny alleged that the accused was caught by
the victim’s mother while defiling her five - year-
old daughter.
He said the offence contravened Section 137 of
the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2011.
The accused pleaded guilty to the charge.