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Lagos-based lawyer was yesterday caught fondling a 9-year old girl’s
breasts and private part in the premises of a Court in Lagos.
Acording to a report on Vanguard,
there was confusion at the premises of Tinubu Magistrate’s Court in
Lagos as Lawyer was caught fondling a 9-year-old girl’s breasts and
private part.
The teen girl reportedly just arrived in Nigeria from England, and had accompanied her grandmother, who had a civil case in court and needed a lawyer.
The victim had earlier at the court, enquired from a court clerk of a lawyer who could help her handle the case and was referred to the busted lawyer who allegedly lured the little girl to an alley within the court premises and fondled her private part.
It was learnt that the cry of the little girl attracted the grandmother, who asked her what the matter was and she started pointing to the lawyer, saying that he fondled her breast and also touched her private part.
Eyewitnesses after the court proceedings revealed that the lawyer was seen walking around the court premises with the little girl and when he was asked who the girl was to him, he said she was his daughter.
He was also alleged to have carried the girl on his laps and gave his mobile phone to her to play with, while he was busy touching her breast and fingering her. It was when the girl started crying and went to report to her grandmother, who started slapping the lawyer that they got to know what happened.
The noise, which disrupted the court proceedings, brought the matter to Chief Magistrate K. B. Ayeye’s attention. The little girl was said to have told the Chief Magistrate what the lawyer did to her.
The magistrate ordered that the lawyer be taken to Lion Building Police Station, Lagos Island.
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