Crime
Court remands unemployed 32-year-old man for molesting 5-year-old girl
A Mararaba Upper Area Court, sitting in Nasarawa State, on Monday remanded a 32-year-old man, Samuel Akpan, in a correction centre for allegedly molesting a five-year-old girl.
The judge, Malam Mohammed Jibril, ordered that the defendant be remanded until November 23 for court to determine his bail condition.
The defendant, who resides at Tudun Wada, Mararaba, Nasarawa State, is being tried for procuration of a minor girl.
He, however, denied committing the crime.
Earlier, the Prosecution Counsel, Insp Hamen Donald, told the court that the complainant, Favour Basaki of Mararaba reported the matter at the “A” Division Police Station, Mararaba on September 30.
The complainant, he said, who is a neighbour to the defendant and the mother of the victim alleged that she left her daughter in the care of the defendant when she travelled for her sister’s wedding.
However, he said, two weeks after the complainant returned, she discovered that her daughter was not feeling well and could not walk properly.
He said the complainant discovered that the defendant had sexually molested her daughter.
He said the offence contravenes the provisions of Section 275 of the Penal Code.
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