LAGOS - A bus conductor, John Akachi, has told an
Ebute Meta Chief Magistrate’s Court that he raped a seven-year-old girl.
The police had told the court on Friday that the
victim, who was his neighbour’s daughter, sustained injuries in the course of
the intercourse.
The defendant was said to have claimed he was drunk
and didn’t know when he slept with the girl. The incident happened at Idimu
area of Lagos State.
The 27-year-old Abia State indigene was arraigned
on one count of rape. The charge reads, “That you, John Akachi, on July 12,
2014, at about 5.50pm, at Adesanya Street, Pipeline Idimu, Lagos in the Lagos
Magisterial District, did have unlawful sexual intercourse with one (name
withheld) aged six years old, which caused her harm and thereby committed an
offence punishable under Section 137 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State,
Nigeria, 2011.”
After the charge was read to him, he said, “I am
guilty with reason.”
The defendant was not represented by any counsel.
The police prosecutor, DSP Etim Nkankuk, announced
the presence of the victim’s parent and the Investigating Police Officer.
The case was adjourned till October 8, 2014.
The Chief Magistrate, Mrs. A.A. Demi-Ajayi, said,
“The defendant, having pleaded guilty to the charge, is hereby ordered to be
remanded in prison, pending the facts and sentence of the case.”
Source: Punch
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