14year old girl confesses to having sex with boyfriend, Parents disagree

A 14 year old girl named Jibola(pen name) has confessed that she willingly had sex in a hotel on Omotulu Street, Amukoko Lagos with her 19 year old boyfriend Abib Muftau who she has been dating since September 2014. Muftau is being accused of having sex with Jibola without he consent. Her parents have refused to believe that Jibola gave in rather they said Abib ricked her with marriage proposal.

In statement made by Jibola, she said she and the suspect had been dating each other for eight months. She also stated that Muftau did not have sex with her under duress.

She said,

“I know Abib (Muftau). He lives on Adejinyan Street, Amukoko. He started dating me last year September and since our relationship started, he had made love with me twice. The first time was in a hotel on Omotolu Street, Amukoko. It was one hour he booked for and he paid N500. He only did it once. “In October, 2014, he had sex with me again in his room when his mother, brothers and sisters were not around. On May 2, I was in the house when he came around evening and asked me to follow him to his house.” 

When Jibola came home late on May 2nd that her mother questioned her and alerted the police.
Muftau was arraigned in an Apapa Magistrate’s Court on three counts bordering on unlawful sexual intercourse and abduction, which according to the police, are punishable under sections 409, 267 and 258 (2) of the Criminal Law of Lagos State of Nigeria, 2011.
The charges read in part,
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That you, Abib Muftau, and one other at large on May 2, 2015, at about 7pm on Adejinyan Street, Amukoko, in the Apapa Magisterial District, did conspire to commit felony to wit; abduction. “That you, and one other person at large, on the same date, time and place, in the aforementioned magisterial district, did abduct a 14-year-old girl from lawful protection of her parents without their consent and detained her with intent to have sexual intercourse with her. “That you, sometime in October and December, 2014 at a hotel and at your residence on Adenjiyan Street did have sexual intercourse with Jibola with fraudulent representation that you want to marry her.”

The defendant, however, pleaded not guilty to the charges. He was admitted to bail by the presiding magistrate, Mr. P.A. Adekomaya, in the sum of N10,000 with one surety in like sum. The case was adjourned till May 28, 2015
Source: Punchnews
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