{"id":175147,"date":"2019-12-11T20:19:16","date_gmt":"2019-12-11T18:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=175147"},"modified":"2019-12-11T19:19:43","modified_gmt":"2019-12-11T18:19:43","slug":"man-remanded-for-raping-17-year-old-in-ebonyi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=175147","title":{"rendered":"Man remanded for raping 17-year-old in Ebonyi"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nAn Ebonyi Magistrate\u2019s Court, in Abakaliki, on Tuesday remanded Desmond Eze, 25, in custody at the correctional centre over alleged rape of a 17-year-old girl (names withheld).<\/p>\n

The accused, whose address was not provided, is standing trial before Magistrate Nnenna Onuoha, NAN reports.<\/p>\n

Onuoha said that the court lacked jurisdiction to hear the case and so did not take the plea of the defendant; and also denied bail application made by the defence counsel.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis court lacks jurisdiction to entertain this matter. The accused should be remanded in the Abakaliki Correctional Service, while the case is referred to the state Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) for advice.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis matter is, therefore, adjourned till Dec. 18, for report of compliance, \u2018\u2019 Onuoha said.<\/p>\n

Earlier, the Prosecutor, Mr Mathias Eze, said that it was reported that the defendant allegedly had unlawful carnal knowledge of the teenage girl on Nov. 17.<\/p>\n

Eze said that Desmond allegedly committed the offence at Effium overhead bridge in Effium Community of Ohaukwu Local Government Area of Ebonyi.<\/p>\n

The prosecutor said that the offence was punishable under Section 34 (2) of the State\u2019s Child Rights Law and Related Matters, 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An Ebonyi Magistrate\u2019s Court, in Abakaliki, on Tuesday remanded Desmond Eze, 25, in custody at the correctional centre over alleged rape of a 17-year-old girl (names withheld). The accused, whose address was not provided, is standing trial before Magistrate Nnenna Onuoha, NAN reports. Onuoha said that the court lacked jurisdiction to hear the case and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":175148,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3773,3],"tags":[2658,702,406],"class_list":["post-175147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-news","tag-a","tag-ebonyi","tag-rape"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175147","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=175147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/175148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=175147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=175147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=175147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}