The Ikeja, Lagos Chief Magistrate Court has remanded an Arabic teacher identified as Mohammed Algoni who allegedly sodomised an 11-year-old boy in his care.
Algoni is said to have sodomised the child at an Arabic boarding school where he worked.
Narrating the event, the prosecutor, ASP Raji Akeem, said the victim had returned home for the recent Sallah break and told his mother that he was not going back to the Arabic school again.
When she asked why, the boy reportedly told his mother how the defendant who happened to be one of his teachers, was sodomising him.
Akeem said Algoni’s offence was reported at the police station and the defendant was arrested. The prosecutor stressed that the offence committed contravened Section 261 of the Criminal Laws of Lagos State, 2015.
The defendant was brought before the Ikeja Chief Magistrate Court on a charge of sodomy.
During the court proceedings, the Chief Magistrate, B. O Osunsanmi, did not take the defendant‘s plea.
Osunsanmi reportedly ordered that Algoni should be remanded in Kirikiri Correctional Centre pending legal advice from the Director of Public Prosecution.
The magistrate adjourned the case till September 28, for receipt of the DPP’s advice.
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