A Juvenile Court sitting in Ikeja on Thursday sentenced a 21-year-old security guard, Abubakar Muhammed, to 14 years imprisonment for defiling a four-year-old girl.
The Magistrate, Mrs E.B. Daudu, handed down the verdict after Muhammed had pleaded guilty to two of the charges preferred against him.
She sentenced the security guard to seven years imprisonment on each of the two counts, and ordered that the sentences should run concurrently.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the convict had pleaded guilty to charges of indecent treatment and defiling of a child.
He, however, entered a plea of not guilty to the charge of stealing.
Consequently, the magistrate fixed Oct. 10 to hear the case of stealing.
The prosecution said the accused committed the offences at 6.00 a.m. on Sept. 3 at the home of the girl on Ajao road, off Obafemi Awolowo Way, Ikeja.
Muhammed was alleged to have also stolen N45, 000 at the house after defiling the girl.
The offences contravened Sections 135, 137 and 285 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2011.
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