Female Student R*ped By Man Who Sent Her Money To Visit Him In Lagos

A postgraduate understudy of the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, has charged a man, Adesoji Orenowo, of r*ping her in his home at European Quarters, Meiran, Lagos.

It was accumulated that the 24-year-old woman met Orenowo at a wedding function in Ibadan, Oyo State, in December 2017.

The couple had purportedly traded phone numbers and stayed in contact through online life visits and calls.

He welcomed the woman, who lived in Abeokuta, to his home in Lagos.

It was assembled that Orenowo sent transport admission to the Osun State indigene.

The 35-year-old was asserted to have r*ped her amid the experience.

The postgraduate understudy, in her announcement to the police, said she consented to spend the night at Orenowo's home since she confided in him.

She stated, "I visited him because to know him more after we met in December 2017. He revealed to me that he was constantly occupied at work and on the off chance that I were free amid the end of the week, we could connect. He sent me N3,000 for transport passage. That was the first occasion when he would send cash to me.

"When I got to his place, I dozed there on the grounds that I met his uncle and the uncle's significant other with a few cousins, who invited me. Despite the fact that I was as yet awkward and was thinking about on returning home, his uncle's significant other said I was sheltered.

"Around 10pm, I rested in the room accommodated me, which was inverse his uncle's room. Around 2.30am, I saw Orenowo adjacent to me; he was contacting and hassling me. I all of a sudden stood up and went to the entry. Luckily, his uncle turned out to urinate and saw me perusing the Bible with the torchlight of my telephone. I went to sit in the living room.

"Orenowo came and all of a sudden hauled me from the living room through the entry into the room. While hitting my head on the divider, he held my neck. I called for help, yet his uncle did not turn out.

"He (Orenowo) relatively choked me, saying in the event that I said anything, he would execute me and no one would follow me. I got a great deal of punches and slaps. He stripped me n*ked and debilitated to attach me to the bed on the off chance that I didn't coordinate with him. He infiltrated me through the butt and private parts."

The casualty said she announced the episode to Orenowo's uncle and left the house for a healing facility. She said an attendant took after her to a police headquarters to report the case.

Orenowo, notwithstanding, denied the claim, saying he didn't lay down with his visitor after she turned down his advances.

He stated, "While I was contacting her after we had resigned to bed, she let me know not to contact her that she was in a fasting and petition program. She took the Bible on my informal lodging the room.

"When she later returned from the living room, we began romancing one another and she demanded that she would not like to have s*x and I cleared out her to rest."

Orenowo was charged under the watchful eye of an Ogba Magistrates' Court on one tally of s*xual attack.

The police examiner, Inspector Christopher John, said the offense negated Section 261 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State.

The litigant argued not blameworthy to the charge.

The judge, Mr P.E. Nwaka, requested that the suspect be remanded in jail