An 18-year-old man, Lucky Omobuaw, is now in the dock at the Magistrate Court in Ajugenle, lagos State, for allegedly raping a 2-year-old daughter of his neighbour.
Omobuaw
who hails from Delta State, committed the offence on the Tuesday,
November 18, when the girl's mother had gone to collect her Permanent
Voter Card, leaving the baby with her siblings in their Baale Street,
Era Town, Ijanikin home.
That was when the devil in Lucky reared its head and he took the toddler to his room and defiled her.
However,
luck ran out Lucky Omobuaw when the girl's father, Anthony Aniebue,
came back from his office and asked for her whereabouts. He was informed
that she was in 'brother' Lucky's room. On getting to the room, the
father found the door locked, raising suspicions in his mind.
He
had to force the door open only to meet the teenager naked raping his
baby. Anibue raised the alarm but Lucky managed to escape by jumping out
of the window. The distraught father rushed to the Ijanikin police
station to report the case and Lucky was later arrested.
The
police said the girl was taken to a hospital where a test was conducted
on her, adding that the medical report confirmed her hymen had been
broken.
Subsequently, a prosecutor, Supol Olu Ojaokomo, brought the culprit before the court on one count of rape.
The charge read:
"That
you Lucky Omobuaw, 18, on November 18, 2014, at about 4pm, on Baale
Street, Era Town, Ijanikin, in the Lagos Magisterial District, did
unlawfully defile a two-year-old girl and thereby committed an offence
contrary to and punishable under Section 135 of the Criminal Law of
Lagos State, Nigeria, 2011.”
The defendant,
however, pleaded not guilty to the offence and the presiding magistrate,
Mrs. O.I. Adelaja, admitted him to bail in the sum of N500,000 with two
sureties in like sum.
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