A 14-year-old secondary school pupil, who allegedly defiled his neighbor's seven-year-old daughter, is facing trial at an Ikej...
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The accused, who resides with his parents on Odo Oba Street, Bariga, Lagos, is being tried for defilement, the News Agency of Nigeria reports.
The accused, according to Police Prosecutor Raphael Donny, broke into the toilet where the underage girl was defecating and defiled her.
He said the accused committed the offence sometime in December 2016 at their tenement building.
“It was the cry of the girl that alerted the mother, who immediately rushed to the scene.
“When the mother saw bloodstains on the child’s clothes, she shouted, but efforts to apprehend the boy were unsuccessful as he ran away from the house.
“The case was reported at the Bariga Police Station, while the boy was later sighted at Agege and arrested… //
