A 40-year old man, Folarin Rafiu, has been arraigned before an Ikeja Magistrates’ Court on Monday, August 31, for alleged sexual assault of a five-year-old girl.
Rafiu, who resides at Ojodu area of Lagos, is charged with indecent treatment of a child.
The Magistrate, Mrs Ejiro Kubeinje, who did not take Rafiu’s plea, ordered the police to send the case file to the state Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) for legal advice.
She ordered that Rafiu be kept in the Kirikiri Correctional Centre, pending DPP advice.
Kubeinje adjourned the case until September 9 for mention.
The Prosecution Counsel, ASP Bisi Ogunleye, told the court that the defendant committed the offence on July 18 at his residence.
He said that the defendant sexually molested the minor.
Ogunleye said that the offence contravened the provisions of Section 135 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015.
The indecent treatment of children attracts seven years jail term. (NAN)