7-yr-old girl to wife: Your husband has slept with me many times

A housewife, Mrs Ajayi, was shocked yesterday before the Ogba magistrate court in Lagos when a seven-year-old girl told her how her husband has been sexually defiling her.

The husband, Taiwo Ajayi, has been dragged before the court on a two-count charge of sexual assault and defilement.

The girl, whose name the police withheld, told the presiding magistrate, in the presence of Mrs Ajayi, that she had lost count of the number of times the accused had defiled her whenever his wife was not around.

The prosecutor, Mr Christopher John, said that the incident happened at Ikotun, Lagos, in the house where the accused and the girl’s parents reside as neighbours.

John said that the victim claimed the accused was always warning her not to tell anybody what had transpired after engaging her in sex.

He added that the girl lost her virginity during the sex bouts.

The prosecutor also said that during interrogation, Ajayi initially denied the act until the seven-year-old girl was brought before him at the police station.

John told the court that it was a case of defilement and hence needed advice from the Lagos State Directorate of Public Prosecution.

The presiding magistrate, Mr Peter Nwaka, denied Ajayi bail and did not take his plea. Nwaka ordered him to be remanded in prison custody and directed the prosecutor to send his file to the DPP for advice.

He adjourned the matter November 30, 2018. till