Rapist Arraigned For Impregnating And Aborting For 16-Year-Old Virgin

A 36-year-old man, Sherif Afolabi who raped and impregnated a 16-year-old virgin is in the dock for procuring abortion for her.

 

The long arm of the law has caught up 36-year-old Sherif Afolabi, who allegedly raped a 16-year-old girl, got her pregnant and arranged for an abortion for her, as he has been dragged brought before an Apapa Magistrate’s Court, to stand trial for his crimes.

The judge, Mrs. O.I. Adelaja, heard that when Afolabi defiled the teenager in December, 2013, at the Ilogbo, Ajangbadi area of Lagos, she was a virgin but in the process, she got pregnant.

It was also learnt that due to threats of physically harming her, the young girl kept mum about the act, but became confused when she noticed that she was pregnant a few months later.

When she told Afolabi about the development, he allegedly arranged with a quack doctor and aborted the pregnancy.

The victim’s parents, it was gathered, reported the incident at the Ilemba-Hausa Police Division when the girl became unconscious due to the effect of the drug Afolabi gave her.

The accused was subsequently arrested and arraigned before the court 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 10 am, 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 withheld), 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 while the case was adjourned till December 1, 2014.