An Iyaganku Magistrates’ Court, Ibadan on Wednesday remanded at the Agodi Prison, an 18-year-old mechanic apprentice, Tirimisiyu Badmus, over alleged defilement of his neighbour’s four-year-old daughter.
The Magistrate, Mrs Munirat Giwa-Babalola ordered Badmus to be remanded in prison custody and the case file forwarded to the state Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) for legal advice.
The court did not take the plea of the accused.
Giwa-Babalola later adjourned the case till February 24, 2015 for mention.
The accused, whose address was not provided, is facing a charge of having unlawful carnal knowledge of his neighbour’s child.
The Prosecutor, Corporal Oluseye Akinola told the court that Badmus forcefully had unlawful carnal knowledge of the girl and inflicted injury on her private part.
Akinola said that the offence was committed on December 8, at about 7.30p.m., at No. 9, Osunkaye Street, Bodija Railway Compound, Ibadan.
He said that the offence contravened Section 218 of the Criminal Code, Cap. 38, Vol. 11, Laws of Oyo State 2000.
