A Magistrates’ Court in Ogudu, Lagos, on Monday, ordered 21-year-old Jonah Major, who allegedly defiled a 14-year-old girl, to be remanded in a correctional facility, pending legal advice.
Magistrate Ejiro Kubeinje, who did not take the suspect’s plea, ordered that he be remanded in the Kirikiri, Lagos correctional facility.
Kubeinje ordered the police to send the case file to the Director of Public Prosecutions for legal advice and adjourned the case until March 3.Prosecution counsel Lucky Ihiehie earlier told the court that the defendant, who lives at Aderibigbe Street, Ketu, Lagos, committed the offence on January 5.He said that Major assaulted and defiled the victim.
The offence, he said, contravened the provisions of sections 137 and 263 of the Criminal Laws of Lagos State, 2015.
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