His name is Kehinde Paul Layode, he is 34-years old and he is married. He was arraigned before a family court in Ikeja for allegedly defiling#raping a three-year old girl at Nos 3/5, John Crescent, Igando, Lagos - Nigeria.
PM News reports that, Mr Kehinde was one of the neighbours of the defiled girl's mother and she left her daughter in his custody when his wife advised her toin order for her to get drugs for the girl when the man allegedly raped the 3 year old. In her words:
“I was going to make my hair in the salon when I discovered that my daughter’s temperature was high and I told Kehinde’s wife to help me take care of her. But she asked me to leave her with her husband since she also wanted to make her hair and that we should go to the salon together.”
“It wasn’t up to ten minutes after I went to get the drugs for her that I returned to the house and asked Kenny (Kehinde) to open the door but he didn’t. Instead, he told me that the girl was sleeping, that I shouldn’t bother myself about her. Then I asked him to at least open the door for me to see my girl and he said that he was in the bathroom.”
“I insisted that he opened the door. At this point, my daughter was lying down on the bed but was not sleeping. I asked him why he told a lie but he did not respond. I only observed that my girl was looking rather disturbed....When I opened her pant out of suspicion to check her, I saw sperm in between her thighs. I got really mad at him and asked him what happened but he went really wild and told me that he did not do anything. ‘How could I have raped her?’ he asked me and when neighbours came around, they were also as surprised as I was".
Tests carried out by doctors showed that the girl was defiled. All appeals by the accused to settle out of court was turned down.
When the matter was initially taken to the magistrate’s court, he pleaded not guilty and was granted bail in the sum of N250, 000 with a surety and the matter was adjourned till Friday, 22 February, 2013.
The matter has been adjourned till 8 April, 2013.
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