An Ikeja Magistrates’ Court has remanded a 43-year-old man, Ademola Oladimeji, for allegedly inserting his finger into the private part of his three adolescent daughters.
Oladimeji, a resident of Fadeyi, was arraigned by the police on a two-count charge of defilement and assault.
The Prosecution Counsel, DSP Kehinde Ajayi, told the court that Oladimeji committed the offence sometime in 2021, in his residence at Fadeyi.
Ajayi explained that the mother of the girls had reported that the accused had been defiling their daughters aged nine, seven, and five.
The Prosecution informed the court that when the girls’ mother found out, she confronted her husband, who got angry, beat her and inflicted injuries on her body.
According to Section 137 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2005, defilement attracts life imprisonment.
In the ruling, the Magistrate, A.O. Ajibade, who refused to take Oladimeji’s plea, directed the police to send the case file to the state Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) for advice.
She adjourned the case until March 2 for the DPP’s advice and directed the suspect be remanded in Kirikiri Correctional Centre.
