A Police source said that the Female Divisional Police Officer, DPO in charge of Ilasan Division, Lekki, Lagos, SP Onyinye Onwuamegbu ordered Sgt Lucky Elele to arrest the Adeleke following a complaint by the mother of the victims.
Adeleke was arraigned before an Igbosere Magistrate Court, Lagos on a one count charge of inserting fingers into the Vaginas of a 4-year old and 20 month old children and ccauing them harm.
Chief Magistrate, Mr B.A Sonuga turned down the bail application for Comfort Adeleke, aged 43, and ordered that the defendant be kept at the Kirikiri Prison, Apapa, Lagos till 30 January, 2018 when the medical report of the alleged injuries sustained by the two victims would be revealed.
Police Prosecutor, Friday Mameh informed the court in charge No F/79/2017 that the accused committed the offence on 23 December, 2017 at Bamidele Eletu Street, Osapa- London, Lekki, where she lives with the complainant and the victims as a nanny.
Mameh told the court that the complainant reported to the Police that she left her two children aged four years and 20 months in the care of the accused who is her nanny to work and that when she returned she discovered that her nanny had inserted her fingers into the private parts of her two children and inflicted injuries on their private parts.
Mameh said that the complainant further stated that following the ugly incident, she rushed her children to the hospital where doctors confirmed that her children’s private parts had been tampered with.
Mameh said the offence the accused committed is punishable under section 135 of the criminal Laws of Lagos State, 2015.
The accused, however, pleaded not guilty to the alleged offence and her counsel, Loveline Ezemegbu urged the court to admit the defendant to bail in the liberal terms.
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