Couple who stabbed 10-year-old girl on her vagina arraigned in court

The Police have arraigned a couple identified as Jerry Okoh Oboh and Eucheria Chukwuma before an Apapa Magistrate’s Court sitting in Lagos for allegedly beating and stabbing a 10-year-old girl, Chidinma, in her private part with a broken bottle.
The couple and Chidinma’s family are said to be residents of Joshua Street, Agbabiaka, in the Ajangbadi area of Lagos.

It was gathered that the couple assaulted the 10-year-old because she messed around with the private part of their three-year-old daughter, Peace.
The victim who refuted the claim disclosed that she had played with Peace at about 7pm on April 6. Peace while playing with the victim was said to have cried out and on been questioned by her parents, the toddler said her vagina was fiddled by Chidinma.
Out of fury for what Chidinma was accused of, Chukwuma was said to have asked Chidinma to come to his room.
Ofia, mother of the victim was said to have heard a cry from her daughter few minutes after the victim followed Chukwuma to his apartment.
On hearing the loud cry by her daughter coming from Chukwuma’s apartment, Ofia rushed to see what was happening. She discovered that the couple had stabbed Chidinma on her vagina with a bottle.
The couple on seeing blood gushing out of the victim’s private part fled the neighbourhood; they were later rounded up by officers attached to the Okokomaiko Divisional Police station.
While giving her confessional statement before the police, Chukwuma said she became angry after the victim refuted the accusation made by Peace.
Subsequently, the couple were arraigned before a magistrate’s Court on a three-count charge of assault.
According to Olusoji Ojaokomo, the police prosecutor, the offence is punishable under sections 171, 243 and 409 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State of Nigeria, 2011.
The charge reads, “That you, Eucheria Chukwuma, 30 and Jerry Oko-Oboh, 32 on April 6, 2015, at about 9pm on Joshua Street, Agbabiaka, Oke-Agbo, Ajangbadi, in the Ojo Magisterial District, did conspire to commit felony and unlawfully assaulted one 10-year-old Chidinma, by beating her up with fist blows in her eye, which caused her harm.
“That you, on the same date, time and place, in the aforementioned magisterial district, did unlawfully assault one Chindima by stabbing her with a broken bottle in her private parts.”
However the couple after admitting to the crime in a confessional statement to the police, later pleaded not guilty to the offence.
The couple were granted bail by the presiding magistrate, Mr. P.A. Adekomaya, in the sum of N100, 000 with a surety each in like sum. They were however remanded in prison custody until their bail conditions are met. The case was however adjourned till May 13, 2015.