Ikeja Chief Magistrates Court in Lagos State yesterday remanded a 70-year-old man, Micheal Afolabi, in Ikoyi Correctional Centre for allegedly defiling an 11-year-old girl.
Chief Magistrate E. Kubeinje, who did not take the plea of the defendant, remanded him on a one-count charge of defilement.
Kubeinje also ordered that the case file be sent to the Director of Public Prosecutions for advice and adjourned the case until November 11 for mention.
Earlier, the prosecutor, Inspector John Iberedem, told the court that the defendant committed the offence in July at about 1pm at Fatimo Lane, Iju area of Lagos.
Iberedem said the defendant had canal knowledge of the girl more than once.
He addes that the mother of the girl reported the incident at the gender unit, Iju Division that her daughter was defiled by the defendant, who is residing adjacent their house when schools were on vacation in July.
He said the mother narrated that the second time the defendant had canal knowledge of the girl was when schools were in session this year.
The prosecutor disclosed that the mother had knowledge of it on September 24.
He said the offence contravened Section 137 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015. NAN
