The Lagos state police command has arrested a 35-year-old man, identified as Peter Adida, for allegedly defiling his two-year-old daughter in Lagos state.
The suspect has been arraigned before magistrate Sule-Amzat at the Ikeja magistrate’s court sitting in Ogba, Lagos State, by the police on one count bordering on the alleged crime .
Punchng reports that the man Adida was arrested after his wife lodged a complaint at the Lamgbasa Police Station stating that he Adida fondled their daughter’s private parts. She reportedly noticed some discharge from the private parts of the two-year-old on November 15, 2018 and raised the alarm.
She asked the kid who allegedly accused her father of touching her private parts.
The case was later transferred to the Gender Unit of the Lagos State Police Command headquarters in Ikeja and the suspect was charged to court.
A police prosecutor, Inspector Benson Emerhi, who brought Adida before the court, said the offence was punishable under Section 137 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2011.
In the remand warrant application filed before the court;
“One Mrs Taiwo reported that her two-year-old daughter was defiled by her father, one Peter Adida, 35. The complainant stated that on November 15, 2018, she noticed that her daughter was having some discharge in her vaginal and that when she took her to a hospital, it was discovered that there was penetration in her vaginal.
“She alleged that on questioning her daughter, she told her that it was her father who touched her (private parts). The suspect, however, made a statement, denying the allegation.”
The presiding magistrate, Sule-Amzat, did not take the plea of the defendant.
