For allegedly fingering his neighbour’s eight-year-old girl, Justice Abiola Soladoye of the Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court, yesterday, remanded a 27-year-old man, Owolabi Olabisi in a correctional facility.
The judge remanded Olabisi after he pleaded not guilty to the one-count charge brought against him by the state government.
He was charged for sexual assault by penetration.
The prosecuting counsel, Ms Abimbola Abolade, told the court that the defendant allegedly committed the offence on January 18, 2023, at about 7:20 p.m., at Ojuelegba Road, Surulere, Lagos.
She alleged that the defendant sexually assaulted the girl by penetrating her vagina with a finger.
Abolade told the court that the defendant’s offence contravened the provision of Section 261 of the Criminal Laws of Lagos State, 2015.
Following the defendant’s plea, the judge ordered his remand at the correctional facility pending his bail application and commencement of trial, and adjourned till February 20 for trial.
