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Ondo—A Chief Magistrates court, sitting in ondo, has remanded 10 suspects in prison for allegedly raping and impregnating a physically challenged teenage girl, in Likoro village

An 11th suspect was however, at large when the case came up yesterday.
According to the First Information Report, FIR, the suspects raped the victim continuously at different intervals by luring her into their various places where they committed the act which resulted in pregnancy.The victim later gave birth to a baby boy four months ago.


“According to the FIR on 27th October, 2024 at 6.30pm, one Usman Yusuf reported that he discovered that his younger sister, Fatima Maikanti was six months pregnant. He said, when questioned, she revealed that at different locations, at different times the suspects lured her to their various places in the village and had sexual intercourse with her, as a result, she became pregnant and delivered a baby boy.

“Investigation revealed that each of the suspects had sexual intercourse with the victim at different locations which contravened section 257 of the Kaduna state Penal Code.”

The trial judge, said the court is waiting for advice from the Ministry of Justice and ordered the suspects to be remanded at the correctional centre pending the transfer of the case to the high court.

He adjourned the matter to May 22, 2025 for mention.


The Ondo state government also has laws that protect women and children and even vulnerable people, the Child Protection and Social Welfare and the Violence Against Persons (VAP) laws as well as the sex offender registry where we register the names of offenders to serve as a deterrent to others.The case is pathetic, both the victim’s parents are blind and she also has one eye.

“The girl has given birth now to a child of four months old, the Divisional Police Officer, DPO, that was handling the case and now retired had silence the case, but with the help of the Commissioner of Police (CP), the case has been reopened as a fresh case because the incident happened over a year now and she has a four month old child.

“The former DPO arrested them and also released them on bail, capital offence is not supposed to be granted bail that is why we reopened the case as a fresh case to re -arrest them.”

She thanked the Commissioner of Police and his team for their quick action of re-arresting the suspects and assured that the state will do everything within the ambit of the law to ensure the victim gets justice.

“The state government will take care of the social welfare of the child and the mother because she is also a child, so they are going to be under our care for their social protection,” she said.

The Commissioner Rabi warned the general public that the state government will not tolerate any act of abuse, torture and molestation of women, children and especially, people living with disability.