A 44-year-old man, identified as Tunde Babalola, has been arraigned by the police in a Lagos Magistrate’s Court, Ogba, for allegedly defiling a 12-year-old pupil.
The man was arraigned on five counts bordering on breach of the peace, assault, and rape.
Reports gathered that the pupil had returned from school on October 21, but did not meet her parents at home, she was said to have approached Babalola a bricklayer, who was working on a building under construction on the premises, to call her parents who were with the key to the house.
Babalola was said to have told the victim to sit on his laps before he could render any help, sitting on his laps, he allegedly dragged the pupil to the uncompleted building and raped her.
The charges read in part, “That you, Tunde Babalola, on October 21, 2016, at about 4.30pm, in the Lagos Magisterial District, did conduct yourself in a manner likely to cause breach of the peace by molesting a 12-year-old girl, thereby committing an offence punishable under Section 166 (1) of the Criminal Law of Lagos State of Nigeria, 2011.
“That you, on the same date, time and place, in the aforesaid magisterial district, did have an unlawful carnal knowledge of one 12-year-old girl, knowing that it is wrong, thereby committing an offence punishable under Section 259 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State of Nigeria, 2011.”
The defendant pleaded not guilty.
The presiding magistrate, S.B. Bakare, granted him bail in the sum of N250, 000, with two sureties in like sum.
That’s absurd; the man
is mentally unstable.