not allow me to go back home. He locked me up in his house and changed my Card. On a particular day, he came in with a lady. I later discovered she was a Police Officer as she was not in uniform. He opened the door and came in with the lady. The lady ushered me down downstairs. In the car downstairs where my family members and my sister i.e. my Uncle's wife, the Driver and 2 sisters. We drove from his house to my Secondary School - Taidob College to see the Proprietor. From there we went to the Police Station at Obantoko. (From the record book page 33) To buttress this, birth certificate of the PW1 was tendered as Exhibit A dated 21/11/2002. No contradictory document was tendered by the Appellant in challenge of the certificate. The Appellant only made heavy weather on what a child means at the instance of S. 32(4) of the Child Right Laws of Ogun State to the effect that there is a reasonable belief that the child was of age eighteen at that material time. It should be noted that there was no documentary materials placed before the Court to support such assertion that the girl is of age at that material time. Appellant contends that there is consensual sexual intercourse. Another defence of the Appellant is that the existing relationship between the duo and the liberty of the affairs suggest that PW1 was over 18 years. This is a mere assertion, as there was no further evidence adduced at the trial in support of such fact.

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