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Court remands 52-year-old businessman for allegedly sodomising teenager

An Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court in Lagos, on Tuesday, ordered that a 52-year-old businessman, Jude Duru, who allegedly sodomised a 14-year-old boy, be remanded in a Correctional Facility, pending legal advice.

The police charged Duru, who resides at No. 15 Bakare Opeche St., Dopemu in Lagos, is charged with sexual assault.

Chief Magistrate B.O. Osunsanmi, who did not take the plea of Duru, ordered that he be remanded in a Nigerian Correctional Service facility in Kirikiri, Lagos.

Osunsanmi ordered the police to duplicate the case file to the Lagos State Director of Public Prosecutions.

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She adjourned the case until Jan. 14.

Earlier, the Police Prosecutor, ASP Ezekiel Ayorinde, told the court that the defendant sexually assaulted his 14-year-old apprentice (name withheld) in his house.

Ayorinde told the court that the defendant committed the offence between June and September,

The offence, he said, contravened the provisions of Section 261 of the Criminal Laws of Lagos State 2015, (Revised) and stipulates life imprisonment if found convicted.

(NAN)

David Olagunju

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