Following the allegation of sexual exploitation of a 10-year-old girl, skit maker, Maruf Abdullahi, popularly known as Trinity Guy has been remanded by a Family Court sitting at Iyaganku, Ibadan, the Oyo State capital.
The skit maker was sent to the Agodi correctional facility on Monday alongside Isiaka Ahmed, 40, and his wife, Rofiat, 29, who are parents of the victim on two-count charge of conspiracy and sexual abuse and exploitation.
The Magistrate, Mrs P.O. Adetuyibi, who did not take the defendants’ plea for want of jurisdiction, said that the case file had been filed and duplicated at the Oyo State Ministry of Justice.
The three suspects were remanded pending when the case would come up for mention on July 11.
According to the Defence Counsel, Mr Oludare Adebayo, Section 41 empowered the court to hear the matter.
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He also said the victim was a product of poverty.
The magistrate said that the case file had been duplicated, but added that not until the Ministry of Justice accepted to withdraw it that she could hear the matter.
Earlier, the Prosecution Counsel, Insp Oluwakemi Arowosaye, had told the court that the three defendants conspired together to sexually abuse the girl.
Arowosaye said that Trinity Guy, on Dec. 17, 2022, sexually abused and exploited the girl at the 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 Right’s Law, 2006.
Arowosaye said that the offences also contravened Section 516 of the Criminal Code Laws of Oyo State, 2000.
If the skit maker is found guilty of the offence, he is liable to 15 years imprisonment under the Child Right’s Law, 2006.