Man, 40, Arrested For Forceful S*x With Step-Daughter, 17

CYRIACUS IZUEKWE 

Police operatives from the Lagos State Command have arrested a 40-year old man, Michael Ugochukwu, for allegedly forcefully engaging his step-daughter in sex romp for 11 days. 

P.M.EXPRESS reports that the incident happened at Yusuf Street, Selewu area of Ikorodu, Lagos, where he resides with the girl and her mother. 

The Police alleged the suspect, Ugochukwu, to have started sleeping with the girl on 4th January, 2022 and when he could not resist it, on 26th February, 2022, he started again and continued till 9th March, 2022.

When the girl was unable to bear the pains, she summoned courage and informed her mother, who was visibly shocked over the act. 

The matter was reported to the Police in the area and he was arrested. He was later transferred to the Gender Section of the Command for interrogation over the act. 
During the interrogation, he reportedly admitted to have slept with her but with her consent. But the girl denied it and told the Police that he did it forcefully and hid from her mother because of the shame.
She narrated that she had to open up when she was unable able to bear the trauma she was passing through since he started abusing her sexually. 

Having been found culpable, the Police subsequently charged him before the Ogba Magistrates Court for the alleged offence.

When he was arraigned, the Court did not take his plea after the prosecutor, Supol Bisi Ogunleye, asked the Court to refer the matter to the DPP for advice and directed the prosecutor to duplicate the file and send it to the DPP while the matter was adjourned till 10th May, 2022, for report of the DPP to be available. 

The man was remanded in custody pending the outcome of the DPP’s advice, which will determine if the matter will be transferred to the High Court or not over jurisdiction.
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