Kareem Abdulrahman

LAGOS – An Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court on Thursday  remanded a septuagenarian in a correction centre for sexually assaulting a six-year-old girl.

Magistrate E.Kubrinhe remanded Patrick Ukpenor, 72, at Kirikiri Correctional Centre where he will be until August 13 for trial.

The court did not take Ukpenor’s plea after the charge was read.

The prosecutor, Insp John Iberedem told the court that Ukpenor committed the offence on July 4 at Amutu Street, Ilasamaja, Lagos.

Iberedem submitted that the septuagenarian sexually assaulted the six-year-old girl, whose name was not mentioned.

The prosecution said the offence contravened the provisions of Sections 261 ,263(1)of the Criminal Laws of Lagos State, 2015.

Sexual assault attracts three years jail term while sexual assault by penetration is punishable with life imprisonment if convicted, according to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN).

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