Court arraigns man for sexually assaulting 8 year-old girl
The Magistrate's court granted the suspect bail in the sum N250, 000, with two sureties in like sum after he pleaded not guilty to the allegations levelled against him.
According to Punch, Okebule told the girl, who is the daughter of a co-tenant to lick his private part.
The suspect was reported to have invited his victim to his apartment, under the guise of sending her on an errand.
Upon the girl’s entry into his apartment, Okebule told her to undress herself, and then brought out his private part for the girl to lick, reports says.
Having successfully done this, the man also touched the victim on her private part the next day of their meeting.
Luck ran out on him on this day when as the victim informed her sister of the act, who also reported the matter to their mother.
A statement of the charge against Okebule reads, “That you, Lekan Okebule, sometime in May, 2016, at about 10am on Fashola Street, Papa Ashafa, Agege, in the Lagos Magisterial District, did put your private parts in a minor’s mouth.”
After pleading not guilty to the charge, the court granted the suspect bail in the sun N250,000, with two sureties in like sum.
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