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Nigerian Businessman Arrested & Charged For Raping Girl 6, In Lagos
Jan 30, 2013 – Nigerian Businessman Arrested & Charged For Raping Girl 6, In Lagos
A 30-year-old Nigerian businessman, Joshua Collins, on Wednesday appeared before an Ebute Meta Magistrates’ Court in Lagos, charged with raping a 6-year-old girl.
Collins, a resident of Oderemo Street, Somolu, Lagos, is facing a two-count charge of indecent assault and rape.
Police prosecutor R. Odigie said the crime was committed on 25 January at about 3 p.m. at the defendant’s residence and that the accused who was squatting with a friend, lived in the same compound with the girl’s parents.
He said that on the fateful day, the girl and her friends were playing in the compound when Collins called her into the flat he shared with his friend. The prosecutor said that when the girl’s mother noticed her absence in the house, she asked her older sister to look for her.
Odigie said that the older sister saw the little girl coming out of the flat occupied by the accused.
“She came out of the place and was shaking and when questioned tried to lie about where she had been. But when her mother beat her, she confessed that it was Uncle Collins that called her,” the prosecutor said.
He said the girl also alleged that the defendant had sex with her by putting his fingers and genital into her private part.
Odigie said that when her mother conducted an investigation, she discovered that the girl’s pant was stained with blood.
He said that the alleged offences contravened the provisions of Sections 135 and 137 of the Criminal Code, Laws of Lagos State2011.
The accused, however, pleaded not guilty to the charge.
The Chief Magistrate, Miss S.O. Solebo, granted him bail in the sum of N200,000 with two sureties in like sum, and ordered that the sureties should each pay N100,000 into the account of the court’s Chief Registrar.
She transferred the case to the family court because of the age of the girl, and adjourned the case to 20 February for mention. [Source]
cutie
January 30, 2013 at 6:36 PM
wonders wil neva end.wat realy caught d eyes of dis dog where d little girl is.pls dis dog should b punishd for others to tak correction
Abdullahi Yusuf
January 30, 2013 at 6:47 PM
Wat a Useless/heartless human.
Abdullahi Yusuf
January 30, 2013 at 6:47 PM
Wat a Useless/heartless human..
stanley
January 30, 2013 at 10:20 PM
Hmmmm, nawaooooo. Big girlz are almost evwhere and dis idiot is putin his fatherz name 2 shame. The earlier u giv ur life 2 christ the better even tho itz a bit late
myview
January 31, 2013 at 10:32 AM
pls sentence the man to life imprisonment becos if not the same act will repeat itself. tanks
Oluwatomisin Elizabeth
January 31, 2013 at 12:18 PM
He needs to be jailed for life
Ugbedeojo
January 31, 2013 at 2:43 PM
Na wa o wa tin person no go see 4 naija dis issue of rape is becomeing anoda calamity in naija o may God help d propetrators of dis devilish act cause is jst nt normal mayb there are under a spear or cure who knows
alex
January 31, 2013 at 4:21 PM
sin grows rapidly
ejike kenneth
February 1, 2013 at 5:45 AM
useless old fool let d court detain him
Rick Mae
February 1, 2013 at 6:31 AM
Eyyyyyyaaaahhhhh…. 6yrs old gal? Jesus christ!
HORIYOURMMIE
February 1, 2013 at 8:34 AM
lozzzzzzzzzzzzzz o my god wot is dis lfy turning 2,dis world is going 2 an end so therefore recuite 4rm evil does.
Johnson john
February 1, 2013 at 9:02 AM
Let justice prevl…..6yrs girl nt 2 gud,God help the little girl
babyface
September 25, 2013 at 7:59 PM
the victim should be castrated after bail so that he will not rape another baby.