The Anambra State Children, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence Offences Court, Awka, on Thursday remanded 18-year-old Chibuike Agu, a tricycle operator, over the alleged rape of a 13-year-old girl.
The defendant is facing a one-count charge of defilement.
The Prosecutor, Inspector Chinyere Okechukwu, told the court that the defendant committed the offence between 2025 and June 2026, at No. 1 Miss Eleme Street, Fegge, Onitsha.
Ms Okechukwu said: “The defendant, who takes the girl to school with his tricycle, sometime in 2025, took her to his house and had carnal knowledge of her.
“The girl from then, continued visiting him three times a week, and when she goes on such visits, she steals food items and money from her aunt’s shop and takes them to the defendant.
