{"id":157620,"date":"2019-10-04T15:09:31","date_gmt":"2019-10-04T14:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=157620"},"modified":"2019-10-04T15:10:01","modified_gmt":"2019-10-04T14:10:01","slug":"how-24-year-old-sexually-assaulted-14-year-old-in-lagos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=157620","title":{"rendered":"How 24-year-old sexually assaulted 14-year-old in Lagos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/13-year-old-girl-tells-court-how-elderly-man-defiled-her-at-11.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">A 24-year-old student, Timothy Ideh, on Friday, appeared before an Ikeja Magistrates\u2019 Court in Lagos, charged with indecent assault of a teenager.<\/p>\n<p>The Prosecutor, ASP. Ezekiel Ayorinde told the court that the defendant committed the offence sometimes in August, at Ajah.<\/p>\n<p>He said that Ideh sexually assaulted the 14-year-old girl by touching her female organs, NAN reports.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe defendant, who came to visit his brother, called the girl inside his brother\u2019s room and started kissing her, fondling her breasts and private part.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen the girl managed to escape, she told her mother what the defendant did to her.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis prompted the mother to report the matter to the police and the defendant was consequently arrested,\u201d the prosecutor explained.<\/p>\n<p>He said that the alleged offence contravened Section 263 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015.<\/p>\n<p>The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the section prescribes a three-year jail term for sexually touching another person without consent.<\/p>\n<p>Following his not guilty plea, the Magistrate, Mrs. B. O. Osunsanmi, granted him bail in the sum of N200,000, with two sureties in like sum.<\/p>\n<p>Osunsanmi said that the surety must be gainfully employed and showpieces of evidence of two years of tax payment to the Lagos State Government.<\/p>\n<p>She, thereafter, fixed further hearing for Nov. 4.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 24-year-old student, Timothy Ideh, on Friday, appeared before an Ikeja Magistrates\u2019 Court in Lagos, charged with indecent assault of a teenager. The Prosecutor, ASP. Ezekiel Ayorinde told the court that the defendant committed the offence sometimes in August, at Ajah. He said that Ideh sexually assaulted the 14-year-old girl by touching her female organs, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":105511,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3773,3],"tags":[2658,61,13363],"class_list":["post-157620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-news","tag-a","tag-police","tag-sexual-assault"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=157620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/105511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=157620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=157620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=157620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}