52-year-old driver, Mr. Chukwudi Nwayaka
has been remanded for allegedly defiling a 14-year-old girl when he was drunk.
Angel Network News (ANN) reports that
Anambra State Police Command arraigned Mr. Nwayaka on one-count charge of defilement brought against him.
The prosecutor, Inspector Chinyere Okechukwu while speaking before the state’s Children, Sexual and Gender-based Violence Offences Court in Awka, told the court that the defendant, who is a native of Umuawulu community, in Awka South, committed the offences on April 10 in his community.
“The defendant lured the 14-year-old girl into his house where he had canal knowledge of her.
“The girl’s mother was searching for her when someone reportedly told her they had seen her with the defendant.
“On reaching his residence, she and some other persons found the girl in a compromising situation with him and he was immediately arrested.
“After medical examination and enquiry at the Ntasi Sexual Assault Referral Centre at General Hospital Enugu-Ukwu, a medical practitioner confirm that the girl had been defiled,” she said.
Okechukwu said the offence is punishable under Section 3(2) of the Violence Against Persons Prohibition and Protection Law of Anambra State of Nigeria, 2017.
She prayed the court to remand the suspect at a Correctional facility as stipulated under Section 130(2) (a) (b) of the Administration Criminal Justice Law 2022.
However, the accused told the court that he had returned home drunk from a traditional wedding.
Nwayaka said he couldn’t explain how the girl came to be found lying beside him on the floor of his room.
The suspect revealed that he was awakened when the girl’s mother and several other individuals burst into his room, where they found him in boxers and the girl covered in his wrapper.
The Chief Magistrate, Mrs U.E. Onochie, ordered that the accused be remanded at the Awka Correctional facility. He adjourned the case until June 10, for hearing.
