This is the height of
wickedness and irresponsibility. A Lagos-based lawyer (names withheld) was
yesterday caught fondling a nine-year-old girl’s breasts and private part in
the premises of Tinubu Magistrate’s Court, Lagos. The victim, said to have
just arrived the country from England, had accompanied her grandmother, who had
a civil case in court and needed a lawyer. At the court, she enquired from
a court clerk of a lawyer who could help her handle the case and was referred
to the said lawyer. The lawyer allegedly lured the little girl to an alley
within the court premises and fondled her private part. 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.
According to
eyewitnesses, after the court proceedings, 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. The eyewitnesses said 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, and when Vanguard visited the station, a police source said that
Assistant Commissioner of Police had taken over the matter and also confirmed
the presence of the lawyer at the command.
Source: Vanguard
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