OMG !!! Father in court for raping 16-year-old daughter

Paul Akpederi, a 52-year-old father, was yesterday, arraigned before a Lagos Magistrate’s Court sitting in Ikeja for raping his 16-year-old daughter.

The man was slammed with a 1-count charge of unlawful defilement before Magistrate B. O. Osunsanmi.

The police prosecutor, Inspector Simon Imhonwa, told the court that the defendant has been committing the offence since 2012 in Ikorodu, area of Lagos.

The defendant, however, pleaded guilty to the charge levelled against him by the Police.
The defendant’s lawyer, A. O. Gbadamosi, filed an application to carry out a psychiatric test on the defendant.
Gbadamosi told the court that the defendant was alleged to have been talking to himself and shouting over nothing.

The prosecutor, however, did not object to the counsel’s request, but said the medical test could have been done at the Police level.
The Magistrate, Osunsanmi, however, granted him bail of N500,000, with two sureties in like sum, adding that the sureties must be related to the defendant.
The magistrate said evidence of tax payment to Lagos State Government must be verified. 

Inspector Imhonwa said the offence was punishable under Section 137 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015.
However the case was adjourned to December 6.