A 46-year-old trader, Chinedu Ifeteka, on Monday, September 30, appeared in an Ikeja Magistrates’ Court in Lagos State for sleeping with his 14-year-old daughter.
Ifeteka is facing a charge of defilement and rape to which he pleaded not guilty.
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Prosecutor, ASP Ezekiel Ayorinde, told the court that the father committed the offence on August 9 and other days at Ojo area of Lagos, adding that he had sexual intercourse with his teenage daughter several times.
“The defendant usually has sexual intercourse with his daughter whenever his wife is not around. She told her mother what her fathers usually did to her in her absence and the case was reported to the police,” the prosecutor said.
The offence contravenes Section 137 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015.
The Magistrate, Mrs B.O Osunsanmi, admitted the defendant to bail in the sum of N300,000 with two sureties in like sum.
Osunsanmi ordered that the sureties must be gainfully employed with evidence of two years tax payment to the Lagos State government.
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