The man was arrested after it was revealed that he raped and tried aborting the pregnancy of a 16-year-old girl.
Police in Lagos have arraigned a man, Sherif Afolabi, for raping a 16-year-old girl in Ilogbo, Ajangbadi suburb of Lagos.
Police
during hearing at the Apapa Magistrate's Court said the 31-year-old
defiled the girl who was a virgin at that time in December 2013.
The
girl kept mute about the incident but noticed she had gotten pregnant
months later. She informed Sherif Afolabi who allegedly gave her some
drugs to terminate it.
The situation went out of
hand when the girl became unconscious due to the effect the drugs. The
parents of the girl reported the matter to the Ilemba-Hausa Police
Division who arrested the man.
The defendant was subsequently arrested and arraigned before the Magistrate, Mrs. O.I. Adelaja, on two counts bordering on rape and abortion.
The
charges read, “That you, Sherif Afolabi, on December 2013, at the
Ilogbo area of Ajangbadi, in the Apapa Magisterial District, did have
unlawful sexual intercourse with a 16-year-old girl (name withheld) and
defiled her virginity, and thereby committed an offence punishable under
Section 137 of the Criminal Laws of Lagos State of Nigeria, 2011.
That
you, sometime in 2014, at about 10am, at the Ilogbo area of Ajangbadi,
in the aforementioned magisterial district, did unlawfully procure
abortion of an unborn child by terminating the pregnancy of a
16-year-old girl (name witheld), and thereby committed an offence
punishable under Section 234 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State of
Nigeria, 2011.”
Afolabi, however pleaded not guilty and was admitted to bail in the sum of N200,000 with a surety in like sum.
The cased has been adjourned till Monday, December 1, 2014.
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