The Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court in Lagos on Thursday remanded a 46-year-old man, Ifeanyi Fred, for defiling a 15-year-old girl.

The court, however, granted bail to the other two women for allegedly procuring an abortion for the victim.

The defendants include a trader, Fred, 46, and the victim’s aunt, 36-year-old Gift Odini, a food vendor. An auxiliary nurse, Shabi Oluwaseyifunmi, 40, is among the defendants.

They are being tried for defilement and procuring abortion.

The chief magistrate, Bola Osunsanmi, refused to listen to the first defendant’s plea.

Ms Osunsanmi ordered him to be remanded in Kirikiri prison custody until May 22 for the director of public prosecutions’ advice.

However, the second and third defendants pleaded not guilty to the charge of procuring a drug for abortion to the victim.

Ms Osunsanmi granted them bail of one million nairas each with two sureties in like sum.

The prosecutor, ASP Raji Akeem, told the court that the offences were committed between February and March 2024 at No 8 Titilayo Soetan St., Ifako Gbagada, Lagos.

Mr Akeem said the first defendant, who lives in the same compound with the victim, raped and got her pregnant. The prosecutor said that the victim’s aunty, who is the second defendant, took her to the third defendant for abortion. 

The prosecutor said that some drugs were given to her to terminate the one month pregnancy.

Mr Akeem said that one of the neighbours got the information and reported the case to the human rights office.

(NAN)