A Magistrates’ Court sitting in Yaba, Lagos State on Thursday remanded one Maxwell Isang to the Ikoyi Correctional Centre for allegedly defiling a 15-year-old teenager in the Isale-Eko area of the state.
The defendant, a security guard, aged 27, was arraigned before the court on one court bothering on the sexual violation and assault on a minor.
Isang was arraigned by the state police command before Magistrate A. O. Salawu, who held briefs for P. E. Nwaka.
The accused, who is a security guard in the area where the victim lived was said to have lured the minor from her parents’ residence to his security post on several occasions, had sexual intercourse with her and threatened her against telling anyone what transpired between them.
According to the prosecutor, Godwin Oriabure, holding a brief for Thomas Nurudeen, the defendant committed the crime on March 1, 2023, at No 44 Isale-Eko, in the Dolphin Estate area of the state.
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Oriabure told the court that the offence contravened and is punishable under Section 137 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, Nigeria, 2015.
The charge read, “That you, Maxwell Isang, on or before March 1, 2023, at No 44 Isale Eko, Dolphin Estate, Lagos, in the Lagos Magisterial District, at various intervals, at your security post, did lure a 15-years-old girl and had sexual intercourse with her, thereby committed an offence punishable under Section 137 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, Nigeria, 2015.”
The court rejected the defendant’s plea.
The prosecutoer prayed the court to remand the defendant to a correctional centre pending legal advice from the Directorate of Public Prosecutions.
Granting the request, Salawu ordered the remand of the defendant to the Ikoyi Correctional Center for 30 days pending legal advice from the DPP and adjourned the case till May 22, 2023.