Cobbler Sexually Assaults 6-Year-Old Twins, Injures Them

A cobbler identified as Yusuf Ojuolape has been arrested and charged to court for allegedly fondling his neighbour's 6-year-old twins at their residence at 23, Okearin Street, Lagos Island.

It was learnt that Yusuf and his friend Akibu, a bouncer were fond of calling the little girls to their room were they assaulted them by inserting their fingers in their private parts.

According to the girls' mother, Mrs Akeem, she got to know about the assault after she noticed swelling around her daughters private parts, while bathing them. When she asked her girls what happened, they told her what Yusuf had been doing to them.

Yusuf ran out of luck, when one day, she sent the twins on an errand and he and his friend cornered them and succeeded in taking one of the twins inside while the other one ran home to inform her mother. The mother brought the police who succeded in arresting Yusuf but his friend ran off.

Yusuf was arraigned at an Ebute Metta Magistrate’s court for his crime.

The prosecutor, Inspector R. Odigie, who said he could not see clearly or understand the medical test report, when the magistrate asked for it, noted that Yusuf committed an offence punishable under section 135 of the criminal law of Lagos state of Nigeria 2003 and demanded that he be remanded in police custody.