33 Years Old Man In Court For molesting His 20 Years Old Neighbour In Lagos

A 33-year-old accounts officer, Stephen Itodo,
who allegedly molested his neighbour, was on
Tuesday arraigned in an Oshodi Magistrates’
Court, Lagos State.
Itodo, who resides at No. 18, Alhaji Shehu Close,
Oshodi, Lagos, is being tried for assault and rape.
The prosecutor, Corporal Kehinde Olatunde, told
the court that the accused committed the
offences on May 3 at his residence.
Olatunde said that the accused unlawfully
molested his neighbour without her consent.
"The accused forcefully had sexual intercourse
with his 20-year-old neighbour without her
permission," he told the court.
The prosecutor said: "The accused sent the
complainant on an errand to buy matches for
him.
"The accused went to call the complainant in her
room that he was not feeling fine that she should
help him to buy matches.
"When the complainant came with the matches,
she knocked on Itodo’s door, he told her to open
the door and bring it inside that he was too weak
to get up.
"Immediately the complainant opened the door
and stepped inside, the accused, who was hiding
behind the door, bolted it and dragged her to his
bed."
The prosecutor said that the complainant shouted
for help, but the accused overpowered her and
forcefully had sex with her.
The offences, Olatunde said, contravened
sections 258 and 261 of the Criminal Law of Lagos
State, 2011.
The accused, denied committing the offence, and
the magistrate, Akeem Fashola, granted him bail
in the sum of N200,000 with one surety in like
sum.
Fashola adjourned the case till June 8 for further
hearing.
Source: Tribune