Court remands father for allegedly defiling daughter
The court ruled that Ashiedu would remain in prison pending advice of the Lagos State Director of Public Prosecutions .
Ashiedu is facing a lone count charge of child defilement before Chief Magistrate Olufunke Sule-Amzat. Prosecuting Inspector Benson Emuerhi told the court that Ashiedu resident at Haruna area of Ikorodu committed the offence on November, 20, 2015 at his residence.He said the survivor informed her teacher, one Mrs. Caroline of her ordeal in the hands of her father and that the assault started four years ago.Emuerhi said the matter was later reported at the Gender Section of Lagos State Police Command, Ikeja, by the survivor and her teacher.She ordered that he should be kept in Kirikiri Prisons.
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