Man, 42, charged with defiling 12-year-old girl

An Ikeja Magistrates’ court has remanded a 42-year-old man, Paul Paul, for allegedly defiling a 12-year-old girl.

The Magistrate, Mrs E. Kubeinje, who did not take the plea of the defendant, ordered that he should be remanded in a correctional centre and adjourned the matter to June 26, pending advice from the office of the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP).

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Earlier, the prosecutor, Insp John Iberedem, told the court that the defendant at about 4pm on May 13, at Barcha, Bonny Camp, Victoria Island, Lagos, forcefully had unlawful sexual intercourse with the minor contrary to Section 137 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015. (NAN)