The Lagos State police command has arrested four men in connection with the alleged abduction and rape of a 14-year-old girl.
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The suspects are: Samuel Efe, Afeez Tajudeen, Solomon Olowu and Okurobo Francis.
The incident happened at Egbeda area of Lagos, where one of the suspects, Efe, abducted the victim into his apartment and invited the three other suspects for the alleged sexual assault.
P.M.EXPRESS reports that the victim was kept in the house, and the suspects molested her sexually in turns for seven days.
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The parents of the victims were searching for her, and reported the matter to the police, while she was in captivity.
However, by the time her captors eventually allowed her to go, she had already fallen ill, due to the level of the sexual assault, and was rushed to the hospital.
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The police were alerted and the first suspect, Efe, was arrested.
He confessed to the crime, and mentioned the three other suspects, and others at large.
The suspects were charged before the Magistrates court sitting in Ikeja for conspiracy, abduction and rape.
But they pleaded “not guilty.”
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The presiding Magistrate, B.O. Osunsanmi, granted them bail in the sum of N500,000 each with two sureties in like sum.
Osunsanmi remanded them in prison custody, pending when they will perfect their bail condition.
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