Evbuoriaria Chief Magistrate Court in Benin, Edo State capital has remanded a house help, Esther Ehikhioya, 43, at the Benin Correctional Centre for assaulting a two-year-old girl.
Despite pleading not guilty to the two counts Charge, the Chief Magistrate of the Court, Dorothy Adamaigbo ordered her to be remanded in prison till March 26 pending when the hearing would commence.
Ehikhioya, a nanny with the Catholic Intercessory Academy, Sapele Road, Benin, was accused of defiling the girl by putting her finger in her vagina, as she reportedly committed the offence on February 3, 2020.
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The prosecutor, Peter Ogbe, in the charge sheet number MEV/61c/c/202, said Ehikhioya after putting her finger into the little girl’s vagina, broke her hymen which was against the law.
The second count also accused Ehikhioya of unlawfully having carnal knowledge of the same girl without her consent.
A medical report from the Police Cottage Hospital, Police Clinic, Benin, confirmed that the girl’s hymen was not intact after medical examinations revealed at the hospital.
The little girl, who was presented in the facility on February 4, was examined by Dr Efosa Osagie, the Medical Officer of Police Cottage Hospital.
According to Efosa; “On examination, I found a young child of pre-school age hymen not intact, no abrasion, nil bruises and nil redness around the vaginal area or anus.”
The allegations of assault on the teenager are one of the many series yet to be revealed as the crime rises with little efforts put in place to curb the spread.
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