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Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court , yesterday, remanded a 29-year-old female teacher, Adejuyigbe Moni, who allegedly sexually assaulted her four-year-old pupil by inserting her fingers in her vagina.
The Chief Magistrate, Mrs Olufunke Sule-Amzat, ordered that the defendant should be kept in Kirikiri Prisons in Lagos pending the receipt of legal advice from Lagos State Director of Public Prosecutions, DPP. The defendant, a resident of Ayoronwi Street in Igando a suburb of Lagos, is standing trial for sexual assault.The prosecutor, Mr. Benson Emuerhi, had told the court that the defendant committed the offence on January 13, on the premises of Covenant Tekno Kids Discovery Centre located on 14, Akeem-Oke Street, Igando, Lagos.
He said the case, which was transferred from Igando Division, was reported at the Gender Section of Lagos State Police Command, Ikeja, by the victim’s father on her behalf.Emuerhi said: “She said that the class teacher had inserted her fingers in her vagina causing her pain.“But she denied, hence the resort to the Police station,” he said.
He said child sexual assault contravenes Section 261 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015, which could attract seven years imprisonment.
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