A Lagos State Magistrates’ Court in Igbosere on Wednesday remanded a 61-year- old woman, Ordega Theresa alongside three other women in prison custody after pleading guilty to a one-count charge of prostitution.
Theresa and three other women, Helen Ugwu,34, Chika Okoro,40, Roseline Jebba, 43 were arrested on Tuesday for allegedly soliciting for sex in exchange for money.
The prosecutor, Sgt. Nicholas Akeene told the court that the accused persons committed the offence at about 11.pm at Thompson Avenue in Ikoyi area of the state on Tuesday.
According to the prosecutor, the offence contravened Section 142 (1) (a) (b) of the Criminal Law of Lagos State 2011.
Ugwu, Okoro and Jebba pleaded guilty to the one count charge, but the fifth suspect,61-year-old Theresa claimed not
guilty.
Her counsel, S.A. Owhoraye, said she was a trader and applied for her bail.
The magistrate, Mrs. Matepo, granted Theresa bail in the sum of N50,000 and two sureties in like sum, while she ordered that the others be remanded in prison. Matepo adjourned the case till November 30 for facts and sentencing.
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