The police yesterday arraigned a 16-year-old boy at the chambers of the Gudu Upper Area Court, in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) for allegedly abusing a toddler sexually.
The accused (name withheld) of Kuje, Abuja, is standing trial on a charge of gross indecency.
The prosecutor, ASP Adama Musa, said one Samuel Zakka of Pegi village, Kuje, Abuja, reported the matter at the FCT command, Abuja, on September 22.
According to him, the accused deceived and took the complainant’s two and a half-year-old daughter to a nearby uncompleted building and abused her sexually.
He said the accused dipped his finger into the private part of the little girl.
Musa said during police investigations into the matter, the girl was taken to the hospital and it was revealed that she was abused sexually.
He said the offence contravened Section 285 of the Penal Code of the Laws of the Federation.
The accused, however, pleaded not guilty.
The judge, Alhaji Umar Kagarko, granted the accused bail in the sum of N100, 000, with one surety that must reside within the court’s jurisdiction.
He adjourned the case till December 17, for hearing. (NAN)
