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Our society is really getting rotten. Three teenagee boys,
Elijah Adebowale, Suleiman Balogun and Shefiu Adam,
were on Thursday charged before a Yaba Chief
Magistrates’ Court in Lagos over the alleged gang-rap*
of a secondary school student.
Adebowale (15), Balogun (16) and Adam (14), who all
reside at the Iju area of Lagos, are being tried on two
counts of conspiracy and unlawful carnal knowledge of
a minor.
The Prosecutor, Insp. Rita Momah, told the court that
the teenagee boys and three others, now at large,
committed the offences on October 5, in an
uncompleted building.
Insp. Momah said the accused all conspired to lure the
13-year-old female student, Vero (real names
withheld), to the building where the six of them took
turns with her.
She explained that the accused persons spotted the 13-
year-old coming out of a church and sent her to get
drinks for them within their area at Olopade Street,
Iju-Ishaga, Lagos.
According to Insp. Momah, the accused offered the girl
a bottle of assorted drink that was already spiked and
each of them all had carnal knowledge of her.
The prosecution submitted that the offences
contravened Sections 409 and 137 of the Criminal Law
of Lagos State, 2011.
The accused persons pleaded not guilty to the charge
levelled against them.
The judge, Mr F.A Adeeyo, granted the accused bail in
the sum of N300,000 each, with two sureties in like
sum and adjourned the case to December 7, for
continuation of hearing.
Source: NH
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