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How Housemaster is remanded for defilingpupil

Published by admin on July 16th, 2024.

How Housemaster is remanded for defiling pupil

An Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court, Lagos yesterday remanded a 43-year-old housemaster, Adema Ogunbiyi, in Kirikiri Custodial Centre for allegedly defiling a 12-year-old pupil at St Francis Catholic Secondary School at Idimu, Ikotun.

Chief Magistrate, E. Kubeinje, ordered that Ogunbiyi be kept at the facility pending advice from the state Director of Public Prosecutions.

The court did not take the plea of Ogunbiyi.

Ogunbiyi.

Kubeinje, however, adjourned the case until July 24, for mention.

The prosecutor, Inspector John Iberedem, had earlier told the court that the suspect committed the offence sometime between 10 pm and 11:30pm on June 18.

He said the offence contravenes Section 261 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015.

Also, the Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court remanded a 17-year-old boy in Kirikiri custodial facility for allegedly defiling an 11-year-old girl on June 23, at Prophetic Adebayo Street, Agodo Egbe, Ikotun, Lagos.

Chief Magistrate Kubeinje ordered that the juvenile be kept at the facility pending legal advice from the state Director of Public Prosecutions.

The magistrate, who did not take the plea of the teenager, adjourned the case until July 24

, for mention.