A lecturer with the Lagos State University of Technology has been remanded in Kirikiri Correctional Centre for allegedly defiling his 10-year-old daughter.
The lecturer was accused of sleeping with his daughter since 2018.
The accused was arraigned on a two-count charge of defilement and sexual assault by penetration before Ogba Magistrate’s Court on Friday, February 3, 2023.
Magistrate Bola Osunsanmi did not take the lecturer’s plea when the charges were read.
She ordered the remand of the lecturer at the Kirikiri Correctional Centre pending the Directorate of Public Prosecution’s legal advice.
The case was adjourned to March 6.
Executive Secretary of Domestic and Sexual Violence Agency (DSVA), Titilola Vivour-Adeniyi, in a statement, stated that the victim’s mother reported the case to the agency.
Vivour-Adeniyi lamented the rise of sexual intercourse between father and his biological daughter in Lagos State.
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She said: “The case was reported by the mother of the victim to the agency in January 2023. According to the information the DSVA gathered, the last abuse happened on December 30, 2022.
“During the court proceedings at Ogba, the mother of the victim allegedly said that her husband had stopped being intimate with her since 2018 and anytime she tried to address it, it always resulted in him physically assaulting her.
“The lecturer was arraigned before Magistrate B. V. Osunsanmi on February 3, 2023, at the Samuel Ilori Magistrate Court 1, Ogba, for allegedly defiling his 10-year-old biological daughter and was also alleged to have been having carnal knowledge of her since 2018.
“He was charged on two counts of defilement and sexual assault by penetrations which were contrary to and punishable under Sections 137 and 261 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015.”
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