By Felix Kuyinu
A man who has been alleged of sexually assaulting an eight-year-old girl has been held up for trial.
During his trial at the Ikeja Magistrate Court, the suspect, Uzochukwu Chinemerem, was said to have committed the act at his residence in Ojo, Lagos.
Police Prosecutor, Inspector John Iberedem, said that
Chinemerem, on October 13 , at New Haven Avenue, Igbehinadu, Ojo, raped the minor and caused her defilement.
The defendant, 26, is facing charges on a count of child defilement, according to Iberedem.
The Prosecutor added that the offence contravened Section 137 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015.
The section stipulates life imprisonment to anyone found guilty of defiling a minor.
Chinemerem pleaded guilty.
The Magistrate, Ejiro Kubeinje, who did not take the defendant’s plea, ordered that Chinecherem be remanded in a correctional facility in Lagos.
Kubeinje adjourned the matter til December 17 pending legal advice from the Lagos State Director of Public Prosecutions, DPP.
