52-year-old man rapes 16-year-old daughter - Shepherd Digest Magazine

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

Akpederi 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.

Imhonwa said the offence was punishable under Section 137 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015.

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.

Osunsanmi said evidence of tax payment to Lagos State Government must be verified, and adjourned.