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Court Dismisses Case of 21 Year-Old UNILAG Student who Jumped from Third Floor of 1004 to Escape Rape by Facebook Friend

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Remember the news report of  a 21 year-old student of University of Lagos who jumped from the third floor of a building in 1004 Estates, VI to escape being raped? She had followed a man she met on Facebook home after they hung out at a night club but resisted his sexual advances towards her and jumped down to get away from him.  BellaNaija reported the news when it broke in November 2012 {click here}.

In a new development, the News Agency of Nigeria is reporting that the Tinubu Magistrates’ Court yesterday struck out a case of attempted rape against the suspect for “want of diligent prosecution”.

The suspect, 26 year-old Arthur Obiora, faced a three-count charge of threat to life, attempted rape and causing bodily harm to the 21-year-old student. He however, pleaded not guilty to the charges.

Following a reshuffle in the Lagos State Judiciary, a new magistrate, Awogboro, took over the case from Martins Owunmi on Wednesday and granted a prayer of the defence to strike out the case.

The defence counsel had asked the court to strike out the case since the victim and her family had not appeared in court since the inception of the case in November 2012. After the arraignment, the case had been adjourned twice before it came up on Wednesday but no prosecution witness showed up.

He told the court that the two families had “entered into discussions on how to resolve the case amicably’’.

Adeola Adeyemo is a graduate of Industrial Relations and Personnel Management from University of Lagos. However, her passion is writing and she worked as a reporter with NEXT Newspaper. She believes that anything can be written about; anything can be a story depending on the angle it is seen from and the writer's imagination. When she is not writing news or feature articles, she slips into her fantasies and creates interesting fiction pieces. She blogs at www.deolascope.blogspot.com

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