The Lagos State Police Command has arrested one Samuel Onochie, for sexually assaulting a pregnant woman in Jakande, in the Eti-Osa Local Government Area of the state. The woman who was said to be eight-months pregnant, was passing through the area at about 6am, when Onochie ambushed her, threw her on the floor and stri*ped her wrapper.
The obviously s*x starved man then dipped his finger into the woman’s private parts and was about to penetrate her when a man was drawn to the scene by the woman’s wailing.
“It is very disturbing that a man could commit such an act, especially with a pregnant woman. As if it was not enough, he did it in broad daylight. He has not been able to tell us why he committed the act,” said a source.
Samuel Onochie was brought before a Tinubu Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday on one count of s*xual assault by a police prosecutor, Inspector Philip Osijale.
The charge read, “That you, Samuel Onochie, 34, on January 24, 2016, at about 6am, at Jakande, Lekki, in the Eti-Osa Local Government Area, within the Lagos Magisterial District, did sexually assault one Esther, by inserting your finger into her private parts, thereby committing an offence contrary to and punishable under Section 259 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, Nigeria, 2011.”
He pleaded not guilty to the charge and elected summary trial before the presiding magistrate, Mr. L.A. Owolabi who granted him bail in the sum of N100,000 with two sureties in like sum.
One of the sureties must be related by blood to the defendant, adding that both sureties must have paid three years tax to the Lagos State Government.
Mr. Owolabi ordered that the defendant should be remanded in prison pending the time he would perfect his bail conditions.
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