15-Year-Old Boy Remanded For Beating 14-Year-Old Girl To Death For Refusing To Be His Girlfriend

An Abeokuta Magistrates’ Court has on Tuesday ordered that a 15-year-old boy be remanded in a correctional centre for allegedly killing a female student.

Dehinde Dipeolu, the magistrate, who did not take the plea of the minor, ordered his remand for 30 days in Boaster Home Correctional Centre pending legal advice from Director of Public Prosecution (DPP).

The magistrate adjourned the case until July 16 for mention.

Earlier, the Prosecution Counsel, Olu-Balogun Lawrence, told the court that the minor committed the offence on February 24 at about 1:30 p.m., at Nawair ud-deen Grammer School area in Abeokuta.

Lawrence said the 15-year-old beat a 14-year-old girl to death, adding that the suspect and and deceased were students of Rev. Kuti Memorial Grammer School and Nawiar ud- Deen Grammer school respectively.

He stressed that the minor accosted the victim on her way home from school and asked her to be his girlfriend but she refused.

Lawrence added;

As a result of the beating, the victim was taken to the General Hospital at Ijaye for treatment and was later transferred to the Federal Medical Center Abeokuta, where she died.

He said the offence contravened the provisions of sections 316 and, 319(1) of the Criminal Code, Law of Ogun, 2006.