An Ilorin Magistrates’ Court on Thursday remanded a dismissed police officer, Folorunsho Monday, who allegedly defiled a 12-year-old girl.
Magistrate Shade Lawal did not take Monday’s plea.
Lawal said that she needed advice from the state Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP).
She ordered that the defendant should be kept at the Oke-kura Correctional Centre pending DPP’s advice.
The magistrate adjourned the case until Jan. 20, for mention.
Earlier, the prosecutor, Mr Adisa Adigun, alleged that the defendant sexually molested the girl on two occasions.
He said that the case was transferred from Divisional Police Headquarters, Ijagbo, to the state Criminal Investigation Department, on Dec. 2.
He prayed the court to adjourn the case as investigation was still on.
Adigun said that the offence contravened Section 32 of Kwara State Child’s Right Law, 2003.
