Trader arraigned on sodomy, remanded in prison

Trader arraigned on sodomy, remanded in prison

NEWS DIGEST – The police have arrested a 52-year-old trader, Emeka Nwobochi, for allegedly defiling a 14-year-old boy.

The Punch Newspaper learnt that Nwobochi allegedly sodomised the victim.

It was gathered that the victim, who had lost his father and had been allegedly abandoned by his mother, was brought to Lagos from Abia State by Nwobohci who promised to send him to school.

Nwobochi allegedly committed the offence on June 29 at Maza Maza Park in Lagos.

Nwobochi was brought before the Ikeja Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday, but his plea was not taken.

The prosecutor, ASP Ezekiel Ayorinde, said, “The accused brought the boy from the village under the pretext of sending him to school. The boy’s father is dead and his mother, who remarried, has abandoned him.

“Nwobochi turned the boy into a sex machine in Lagos and when he could no longer bear the pains, he told someone who reported the case to the police which led to the arrest of the accused.”

The magistrate, Mrs B.O. Osunsanmi, ordered that Nwobochi be remanded in Kirikiri Minimum Prison.

The case was adjourned till for August 13, 2018.