Three Senior
Secondary School 1 (SS1) students (names withheld), who allegedly gang-defiled
their 15-year-old classmate, were on Wednesday remanded in a juvenile home.
The teenagers aged: 16, 16 and 14-years
were docked at a Tinubu Chief Magistrates Court which also doubles
as a Family Court.
They are facing a four-count charge bordering
on conspiracy, unlawful canal knowledge, sexual assault and defilement.
The chief magistrate, Mr Tajudeen Elias, ordered that the boys be remanded at Borstal Training Institution in Adigbe, Abeokuta, pending the receipt of legal advice from the Department of Public Prosecutions (DPPs).
The prosecutor, Sgt. Hafsat Ajibode, told the court that the boys committed the offences in July 2018 at Makoko Area of Lagos State.
She said that the boys gang-defiled their
15-year-old classmate at her resident.
“The boys claimed that they came to visit their
female classmate at her house while her parents were not around.
“They offered her a drink which was suspected to
contain some sleeping pills and that was the last the girl remembered when she
became conscious.
“When she regained consciousness, she discovered
that she was naked and bleeding while the boys had disappeared.
“She raised an alarm which led to the arrest of the
accused.
“The girl has since been traumatised and
hospitalized as a result of the incident,” she said.
She said that the offences contravened Sections 260
(1) (2) (4), 261, 263 (1) and 411 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015.
The case was adjourned until Jan.16 for mention.
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Borstal Training Institution is where juvenile
offenders are remanded.
There, they would receive both educational and
vocational trainings aimed at rehabilitating and reforming them before they would
be reintegrated into the society.
