MY STEPFATHER IMPREGNATED ME TWICE AND COMMITTED ABORTION WITH MY MOTHER’S CONSENT, 17-YR OLD GIRL TELLS COURT

“I decided to inform my teacher of the incident because my mother could not protect me and I am tired of pregnancy and abortions and I still want to continue my education.”

Following the incident, the Divisional Police Officer, DPO in charge of Adeniji Adele Division, Lagos Island directed his men led by Inspector Aderinto Foluke to arrest the Man and his Wife and she tracked and arrested them.

While the man was charged before the Tinubu Magistrate’s Court on a two-count charge in the charged marked TC/58/2021 bordering on having unlawful canal knowledge of a 17-year-old stepdaughter, his wife was charged before the same Court on a two-count in the charge marked TC/18/2022 for Procuring abortion for her daughter.

Police Prosecuting Counsel, Inspector Koti Aondohemba told the Court that the husband and wife committed the offence at 52, Fagbayi Street, Ebute-Metta, Lagos.

Aondohemba informed the Court that while the man was arrested for sexually molesting her stepdaughter which resulted in pregnancy twice, the wife was arrested for concealing the matter and assisting to abort the pregnancies.

He said the offences, the defendants committed were punishable under sessions 137, 264 and 145, 147(1) of the Criminal Law of Lagos State 2015.

The plea of the man was not taken and Magistrate A.T. Omoyele directed the Police to duplicate his case file and send it to the office of the Directorate of Public Prosecution, DPP for legal advice on the matter and that the defendant be remanded at the Ikoyi correctional facility pending the DPP’s advice.

Omoyele granted Shade bail in the sum of N200,000 with two sureties in like sum and adjourned the case till 11 January 2023 for mention.

She also directed that the defendant be detained at the Kirikiri correctional facility till she perfected the bail conditions.