Teenager docked for raping two-year-old girl

isaac

November 25, 2014 9:38 AM

For Lucky Omobuaw, the prison may well be his abode in the next few days after he was caught and dragged to the court for raping a 2-year-old girl.

An 18-year-old man, Lucky Omobuaw, is now in the dock at the Magistrate Court in Ajugenle, lagos State, for allegedly raping a 2-year-old daughter of his neighbour.

Omobuaw who hails from Delta State, committed the offence on the Tuesday, November 18, when the girl's mother had gone to collect her Permanent Voter Card, leaving the baby with her siblings in their Baale Street, Era Town, Ijanikin home.

That was when the devil in Lucky reared its head and he took the toddler to his room and defiled her.

However, luck ran out Lucky Omobuaw when the girl's father, Anthony Aniebue, came back from his office and asked for her whereabouts. He was informed that she was in 'brother' Lucky's room. On getting to the room, the father found the door locked, raising suspicions in his mind.

He had to force the door open only to meet the teenager naked raping his baby. Anibue raised the alarm but Lucky managed to escape by jumping out of the window. The distraught father rushed to the Ijanikin police station to report the case and Lucky was later arrested.

The police said the girl was taken to a hospital where a test was conducted on her, adding that the medical report confirmed her hymen had been broken.

Subsequently, a prosecutor, Supol Olu Ojaokomo, brought the culprit before the court on one count of rape.

The charge read:

"That you Lucky Omobuaw, 18, on November 18, 2014, at about 4pm, on Baale Street, Era Town, Ijanikin, in the Lagos Magisterial District, did unlawfully defile a two-year-old girl and thereby committed an offence contrary to and punishable under Section 135 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, Nigeria, 2011.”

The defendant, however, pleaded not guilty to the offence and the presiding magistrate, Mrs. O.I. Adelaja, admitted him to bail in the sum of N500,000 with two sureties in like sum.

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