AN Ikeja Magistrates’ Court yesterday remanded in prison a 55-year-old banker, Titilayo Olatunji, following his arraignment for allegedly raping an eight-year-old girl.
Magistrate B. O. Osunsanmi refused to take the defendant’s plea when the case was called.
She ordered that Olatunji be kept in custody, pending advice by Lagos State Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP).
Osunsanmi adjourned till April 14.
Prosecuting Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Ezekiel Ayorinde said the defendant committed the offence on February 19 at his home.
He alleged that the defendant defiled his neighbour’s eight-year-old daughter.
“The defendant called the girl into his room on the pretext of sending her on an errand.
“When the girl entered, he locked the door and raped her.
“The girl told her mother when she returned from work that she was feeling pains in her private parts.
“The mother asked her who touched her s*xual organ and she narrated to her mother what the defendant did to her,” the prosecutor said.
Ayorinde said the girl was taken to a hospital where it was confirmed that she had been defiled.
He said the case was reported and the defendant was arrested.
