Crimes

Sexual exploitation: Court remands skit maker Trinity, girl’s parents

A Family Court sitting in Iyaganku, Ibadan, the Oyo State capital has ordered the remand of a skit maker, Maruf Abdullahi, popularly known as Trinity, in Agodi correctional facility over alleged sexual exploitation of a 10-year-old girl.

The court, on Monday, June 26, also arraigned 40-year-old Isiaka Ahmed and his 29-year-old wife, Rofiat, who are parents of the victim, on two-count charge of conspiracy and sexual abuse and exploitation alongside the skit maker.

The Magistrate, P.O. Adetuyibi, who did not take the defendants’ plea for want of jurisdiction, said the case file had been filed and duplicated at the Oyo State Ministry of Justice.

Adetuyibi remanded the three defendants in Agodi correctional facility in Ibadan, pending July 11 when the case would come up for mention.

The defence counsel, Oludare Adebayo, argued that Section 41 empowered the court to hear the matter.

Adebayo also said the victim was a product of poverty.

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The Magistrate said the case file had been duplicated, adding that not until the Ministry of Justice accepted to withdraw it that she could hear the matter.

Earlier, the prosecution counsel, Inspector Oluwakemi Arowosaye, told the court that the three defendants conspired together to sexually abuse the girl.

Arowosaye said Trinity, on December 17, 2022, sexually abused and exploited the girl in Kuola area of Ibadan.

“Abdullahi was asking the victim the colour of his penis, recording the scene, and posting it on social media,” she said.

According to her, the offences are contrary to Section 35 (1) and punishable under Section 35 (2) of Oyo State Child Rights Law, 2006.

Arowosaye said the offences also contravened Section 516 of the Criminal Code Laws of Oyo State, 2000.

The skit maker, if found guilty of the offence, is liable to 15 years imprisonment under the Child Rights Law, 2006.

The Star

Segun Ojo

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