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Lagos – An Ogudu Magistrates’ Court, Lagos, on Wednesday remanded a 37-year-old father, Okoro Odia, in prison custody for putting grinded pepper on his 10-year-old daughter’s privatepart.Okoro is standing trial on a three-count of indecent treatment, attempt to commitmurder and assault.Prosecutor Ihiehie Lucky told the court that the accused committed the alleged offences sometime in June and August.Ihiehie said that Okoro, a furniture maker, unlawfully and indecently dealt with his daughter.He said the step-mother, Abayomi Maria, reported that the accused always beat up the girl.The prosecutor said the complainant told the police that Okoro had sometime in June used a dog chain to tie the girl to a ceiling fan and left her there.Ihiehie told the court that the accused tied the daughter to the ceiling because she failedto submit his lotto number to the agent.He told the court that the indecent assault on the girl was reported by the step-mother to the Ketu Police Station.Maria, the pr...