21-Year-Old Arraigned For Sleeping With Mentally Ill Inmates

Twenty-one-year-old Sulaimon
Lateef was on Thursday arraigned
for sleeping with two female
inmates at the Rehabilitation and
Training Centre (for mentally
infirm persons) in Owutu, Ikorodu,
Lagos.
Lateef was charged before the Lagos
State Environmental and Special
Offences Court, Alausa Ikeja. He
pleaded not guilty to the four counts
instituted against him by the state's
Attorney-General.
The prosecutor, Mr. Babatunde
Sunmonu, explained that the
accused could not be charged with
rape due to the mental status of the
victims.
The accused was therefore charged
with causing breach of peace,
conducting himself as a disorderly
person and obstructing one
Olasunkanmi Hassan, an official of
the rehabilitation centre.
Part of the charges read, "That you
Lateef Suleiman, male, on June 7,
2013, by 9.30pm at Rehabilitation
Centre for Mentally Infirm, Owutu, in
Ikorudu conducted yourself in a
manner likely to cause breach of
public peace when you climbed a
14ft fence, an offence contrary to
Section 166()(d) Criminal Law 2011
and punishable under section 166(2)
of the same law."
Lateef, who was said to have first
visited the centre seeking
employment, was allegedly attracted
to the inmates, two of whom he
allegedly induced with N200 and
N100 and allegedly slept with them
on different occasions.
Upon an application for bail by his
counsel, Ayo Odekunle, the presiding
magistrate, Mrs. Jadesola Adeyemi,
granted the accused bail in the sum
of N50,000 with two sureties in like
sum
The court adjourned till July 11 for
mention.