The police have arrested a 52-year-old trader, Emeka Nwobochi, for allegedly defiling a 14-year-old boy.

PUNCH Metro learnt that Nwobochi allegedly sodomised the victim.

It was gathered that the victim, who had lost his father and had been allegedly abandoned by his mother, was brought to Lagos from Abia State by Nwobohci who promised to send him to school.

Nwobochi allegedly committed the offence on June 29 at Maza Maza Park in Lagos.

Nwobochi was brought before the Ikeja Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday, but his plea was not taken.

The prosecutor, ASP Ezekiel Ayorinde, said, “The accused brought the boy from the village under the pretext of sending him to school. The boy’s father is dead and his mother, who remarried, has abandoned him.

The magistrate, Mrs B.O. Osunsanmi, ordered that Nwobochi be remanded in Kirikiri Minimum Prison.

The case was adjourned till for August 13, 2018.