The Children, Sexual and Gender-based Violence Offences Court in Awka, has remanded a 15-year old teenager for allegedly raping an 18-year-old girl.
The teenager is facing a one-count charge bordering on rape.
He however pleaded not guilty to the charge, saying that the act was consensual.
Earlier the Police Prosecutor, Insp. Chinyere Okechukwu, told the court that the defendant committed the offence on March 10, at Agbani in Umuawulu community, Awka South Local Government Area of Anambra.
Okechukwu said that the complainant, who is the mother of the alleged victim, told the police that on the faithful day, she had sent her daughter to the farm to deliver food to the workers and to gather some firewood from the bush on her way home. (Guardian)
