Bus conductor, 35, remanded for defiling 5-year-old girl in Lagos
Chidi Opara, a 35-year-old bus conductor, who allegedly defiled a five-year-old has been remanded at Kirikiri Prisons by an Ikeja Magistrates’ Court on Monday.
Opara, who resides at Iyana- Iba, Lagos, is being charged for child defilement.
ASP Ezekiel Ayorinde, the Police prosecutor told the court that Opara committed the offence on June 10 at Iba area of Lagos. He said that Opara unlawfully had carnal knowledge of the minor.
“The accused visited the brother of the girl in his absence. He called the girl into her brother’s room, removed her pant and had sexual intercourse with her,” Ayorinde said.
He further alleged that the mother of the girl noticed the way her daughter was walking and she questioned her.
“When the girl entered her mother’s room, she discovered that her daughter was not walking properly and also noticed blood and sperm gushing out of her private parts.
“The girl told her mother what the accused did to her, her mother raised alarm, on hearing the voice of the girl’s mother, the accused ran out of the room,” the prosecutor said.
“The mother ran after him shouting, people on the street gave the accused a hot chase and he was apprehended and handed over to the police.”
Opara is facing life imprisonment if found guilty of child defilement.
Magistrate Mrs Osunsanmi who refused to take the plea of the accused, said he should be behind bars pending advice from the State Director of Public Prosecutions, DPP. The case was adjourned until July 17.
