The Children, Sexual and Gender-based Violence Offences Court in Awka, the capital of Anambra State, has remanded a 15-year-old boy for allegedly raping an 18-year-old girl in the state.
The teenager is facing a one-count charge bordering on rape.
He, however, pleaded not guilty to the charge, saying that the act was consensual.
The Police Prosecutor, Inspector Chinyere Okechukwu, told the court that the teenager committed the offence at Agbani in Umuawulu community, Awka South Local Government Area of Anambra State on March 10.
Okechukwu said the complainant, who is the mother of the victim, told the police that on the faithful day, she had sent her daughter to the farm to deliver food to the workers and to gather some firewood from the bush on her way home.
She said: “The defendant encountered her in the bush while she was gathering firewood, overpowered her, tore her clothing, and forcefully had carnal knowledge of her.
“After medical examination and enquiry at the Ntasi Sexual Assault Referral Centre at General Hospital Enugu-Ukwu, a medical practitioner confirmed that the girl had been raped.”
The prosecutor added that the offence contravened Section 130(2) (a) (b) of the Administration of Criminal Justice Law 2022.
She prayed the court to remand the suspect at a correctional facility.
The Chief Magistrate, U.E. Onochie ordered that the teenager be remanded at the Awka correctional centre, pending advice by the Directorate of Public Prosecutions (DPP).
Onochie, thereafter, adjourned the case until May 7, 2025, for mention.
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