S-H-O-C-K-E-R: 7yr Old Rape victim remanded, suspect Kassim Mohammed & other Rapists granted bail by Lagos court

One of the suspects, Kassim

A  Lagos-based couple, two weeks ago, got what they did not bargain for when an Ikeja Magistrate’s Court ordered the remand of  their 7-year- old ward (name withheld) at the Child Correctional Center, Yaba,  while the only suspect in police custody was granted bail.
The victim was  allegedly  raped several times by three men: Kassim Mohammed, 43, Oluwatobi Daramola and  James Aniekan.
The  Magistrate, Mrs E. B Daudu of an Ikeja Magistrate court granted the application of  the police prosecutor identified as Anthonia  for the rape victim to be remanded in the Child Correctional Center because her
guardians could not take proper care of her, which made her vulnerable to sexual assault.
The  Magistrate  however, released one of the suspects, Tobi, on bail. It took the kind intervention of the Deputy Chief Registrar of the Lagos High Court, Mr A.O. Isaacs for the Magistrate to temper justice with mercy by releasing the  victim to her guardians after spending nearly the whole day at the correctional center.
According to the little girl, the police prosecutor, Anthonia, whom she described as the ‘fat woman’ accompanied her to the remand home and threatened that her people would not see her again.  The little girl said that she was shown a cell with no windows at the Correctional Centre, and she was threatened that she would be locked there for five days.
Mohammed, Daramola and Aniekan were said to have allegedly defiled the little girl serially between July 2012 and January 2013.  Daramola and Aniekan, were said to be about 21 and 19 years old respectively although, they claimed to be 17.
The victim’s ordeal  in the hands of the suspects, started when she was  only 6 years old.  Two of the suspects,  Daramola and Aniekan were arraigned at a magistrate’s court in Lagos for alleged defilement. The arraignment of Daramola, was held weeks before that of Aniekan.  Tobi was arraigned on a one- count charge of unlawful sexual intercourse with the hapless little girl.

The victim who lives with her aunt and her husband at 2, Oladipo Close, off Lawani Ogunle Street, Greenland Estate, Isheri area of Lagos, narrated what she had suffered in the hands of the men.

Culled - Vanguard

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