A 75-year-old man, who allegedly r@ped and impregnated a 13-year-old girl put in his custody, has been remanded in prison by a Chief Magistrate’s Court sitting in Awka, Anambra State.
The suspect was arrested on Sunday night, December 11, same day the Ministry of Women and Social Welfare rescued the teenager, who was recently delivered of a baby.
He was on Wednesday arraigned before the Children, S#xual and Gender-Based Vi£lence Court, Awka, presided over by Chief Magistrate Genevieve Osakwe.
He was arraigned on three counts of defil£ment, carnal knowledge, emotional, verbal and psychological ab¥se.
Ruling on bail application by the defence Counsel to the defendant, the presiding court noted that the rate of r@pe and defil£ment of minors in the state is alarming; adding that the defendant is old enough to be the grandfather of the complainant.
The chief Magistrate went further to state that although the counsel to the defendant prayed the court to grant the defendant bail on the grounds of having acute diabetes and hypertension, he failed to present any medical report or hospital extract to that effect.
The court, however, refused bail for the defendant and ordered that the defendant be remanded in prison custody; while urging the prosecuting counsel to forward the police case file to the Office of the DPP, Ministry of Justice to enable it file information before the High Court.
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