An Ogudu Magistrates’ Court yesterday remanded a 33-year-old guard, Paul Audu, following his arraignment for allegedly defiling his friend’s eight-year-old daughter.
Magistrate E. Kubeinje remanded him, pending advice by the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP).
The court did not take his plea.
Audu, who lives at Adegun Street, Ikorodu, Lagos is standing trial on a two-count charge of child defilement and sexual assault.
Prosecuting Inspector Lucky Ihiehie urged the court to remand him.
He said the accused committed the offence between last year September and December at Adeyemi Street, Ikosi, Ketu, Lagos.
Ihiehie said the minor’s father reported the case to the police.
He alleged that the accused inserted his fingers in the girl’s private parts many times and later had sex with her.
The prosecutor said the minor wrote a letter to her father, explaining her ordeal in the hands of the accused.
He said the complainant, a widower, allowed Audu to stay with his family whenever he was off duty, to help him take care of the daughter.
He quoted the minor as saying: “I always feel pain, but I didn’t tell my daddy because I thought he wouldn’t believe me.
“Whenever the accused sleeps with me, he gives me N500 so that I won’t tell my daddy.”
Ihiehie said the offence contravened sections 137 and 265 (1) of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015.
The case continues on March 27.