School bus driver allegedly defiles 3-yr-old girl
A chief magistrate court in Ebute Metta, Lagos State, on Thursday ordered that a school bus driver, Michael Mowete, 35, who allegedly defiled a three-year-old girl, be remanded in a correctional centre. The police are charging Mowete, who resides at Block 2, Flat 2, Godmon Estate, Okota, with two counts of indecent and unlawful assault […]
A chief magistrate court in Ebute Metta, Lagos State, on Thursday ordered that a school bus driver, Michael Mowete, 35, who allegedly defiled a three-year-old girl, be remanded in a correctional centre.
The police are charging Mowete, who resides at Block 2, Flat 2, Godmon Estate, Okota, with two counts of indecent and unlawful assault and defilement.
The accused, however, pleaded not guilty to the charges.
Chief Magistrate A.O. Komolafe ordered that Mowete be remanded in the Nigerian Correctional Service in Ikoyi, pending when the case would be filed at the Special and Sexual Offences Court, Ikeja.
She adjourned the case until November 20 for mention.
Earlier, the prosecution counsel, Insp. Kehinde Omisakin, told the court that the defendant committed the offence on September 27, about 3.30pm, between the minor’s school and her mother’s shop.
He alleged that the defendant, a bus driver in the school of the toddler, defiled her before dropping her at her mother’s shop.
The offence, he said, contravened sections 137 and 263 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015. (NAN)a