MICHAEL AKINOLA
A 20-year old worshipper, Ayomide Oluyori, has been ordered to be remanded in custody at the correctional center at Kirikiri town for allegedly engaging a 5-year old girl in sex inside the toilet of the Redeemed Christian Church during a church service in Lagos State.
P.M.EXPRESS reports that the defendant, Ayomide Oluyori, was charged before the Court after he was caught allegedly having sex with the victim at the Redeemed Christian Church, Solid Rock Parish, Ojodu, Lagos.
The incident happened on 26th October, 2025, inside the church.
He was said to have lured the victim and defiled her in the process before he was caught and handed over to the Police for prosecution.
According to the Police, the victim’s mother reported at the Ojodu Division that she came to the church for service and as the victim went to the toilet to urinate, the defendant was peeping at her. By the time she was done, the said Ayomide went to the toilet with her. He removed her pants, removed his trouser and placed her on his lap. While he sat on the toilet seat, he put his penis cap on the surface of her vagina while rubbing it and then discharge sperm on his laps.
The Police subsequently arrested and transferred him to the Gender Section of the State Command for further investigation and prosecution.
At the Gender Section, the Police found him culpable after interrogation and charged him before the Ogba Magistrate Court for the alleged offence which attracts several years of imprisonment.
The charge read:
“That you, Ayomide Oluyori ‘m’, on the 26th day of October 2025, at the Redeemed Christian Church, Solid Rock Parish, Ojodu, in the Lagos Magisterial District, did defile the victim ‘f 5years old by having unlawful canal knowledge of her and thereby committed an offence punishable under Section 137 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State of Nigeria, 2015.”
However, the Court did not take his plea following a motion moved by the prosecutor, Mr. Lucky Ihiehie, asking the Court to give a date and refer the matter to the DPP for legal advice.
The Presiding Magistrate, Mrs. M.O. Tanimola, ordered his remand in the correctional center at Kirikiri town, Lagos, pending the outcome of the DPP’s advice and directed the prosecutor to duplicate the file and send it to the DPP for advice.
The matter was adjourned for mention for the report of the DPP’s advice to be available, which will determine if the matter will be transferred to the High Court or not over jurisdiction.