An Ikeja Sexual Offences and Home Courtroom on Monday, January 8, 2024, remanded a 28-year-old man, Agboola Adebayo, in a correctional centre for defiling a 9-month-old child.
The Lagos State authorities arraigned Adebayo, whose residential tackle was not offered, on a two-count cost of defilement and inflicting grievous hurt to the newborn.
The defendant pleaded responsible to the cost.
Justice Rahman Oshodi thereafter remanded Adebayo on the correctional facility and adjourned the case until March 25, 2024, for a listening to.
Earlier, the state counsel, Bukola Okeowo, advised the courtroom that Adebayo dedicated the offence on March 23, 2023, within the White Sand Space of Ijora, Badiya, Lagos.
Okeowo submitted that the defendant defiled the newborn by having illegal sexual activity together with her.
The prosecutor additionally mentioned that the defendant unlawfully triggered grievous hurt to the kid by inflicting critical accidents on her vagina.
The offence contravenes the Prison Legal guidelines of Lagos State (2015) and is punishable by life imprisonment.