A 24-year-old man was on Tuesday remanded in prison for allegedly sodomising a nine-year-old boy in Benin, Edo State.

Osamudiamen Amayo was said to have been defiling the child for some time around Medical Stores road, Benin City.

Luck, however, ran out on the suspect when the mother of the victim started noticing her son’s strange behaviour and rapid loss of weight.

When questioned the victim told his mother that Amayo had been raping him with threats to kill him and the mother if he discloses what happens between them to anybody.

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The matter was reported to the Edo Civil Society Organisations, who got the suspect arrested and later charged to court.

After his arraignment today, Amayo was remanded in prison and the case adjourned till the 6th of December, 2018.

Amayo was arraigned before an Egor Magistrate court sitting in Benin.