Man Arraigned for Sleeping with 6-year Old Daughter

A 35-year-old father of three, Harrison Agu was on Monday arraigned before an Ikeja Chief Magistrate Court over alleged defiling of his six-year-old daughter (name withheld).The defendant is currently answering questions that touches on indecent treatment of a minor.Though Agu pleaded not guilty to the charge, the prosecutor, Inspector Simon Imhonwa, told the court that the accused had regularly defiled his 6-year-old daughter within the last 36 months.According to him, “The accused began the assault in 2013 when the child’s mother was away for the compulsory one year NYSC.“It was during this period that the child fell ill with a serious infection in her genitals for the first time. Thereafter, the mother of the child observed that the child’s genitals regularly produced a foul smell with discharges.“The mother took the child to the hospital where it was confirmed that the child had been defiled.”The prosecutor who further argued that the minor had been physically and emotionally abused since the aged of 3, insisted that the offence is a breach of Section 135 of the Criminal Laws of Lagos State 2011.