HOUSEWIFE ALLEGEDLY FORCES 19-YEAR-OLD TO SLEEP WITH HUSBAND, BEAR CHILDREN – WITNESS
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On Monday, Elizabeth Osikolu, an investigating police officer, testified before the Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court about how Omolara Alashe, a housewife, coerced a 19-year-old girl (name withheld) into having sex with her husband, Ramoni Lateef, in order to conceive.
This was recounted to Justice Rahman Oshodi by Osikolu, the second prosecution witness, who was led in evidence-in-chief by state prosecuting attorney B.T. Boye, who led Bukola Okeowo.
The Lagos State Government has filed a preference against Alashe and Lateef, who are first and second defendants, respectively, and are on trial for conspiracy, rape, sexual assault, and theft.
The witness informed the court that the event took place in 2022 at their home in Ketu, where they had moved after the sale of their previous home in Ojota.
Osikolu informed Justice Oshodi that the survivor’s mother passed away when they were residing in Ojota, and the couple volunteered to take her in.
The IPO said that while living with them, the survivor said the couple “always abused her physically whenever she made mistakes.”
She said at other times, “The first defendant would also wake her up at midnight and stripe her naked and the second defendant would have sexual intercourse with her without her consent.
“The first defendant (Omolara) wakes her up in the middle of the night, strips her naked while her husband sleeps with her (survivor).”
She said they were in the sitting room one day “when the first defendant suddenly started beating her up, stripped her naked and inserted her fingers in her vagina without her consent.
“After she was done, she threw out her belongings and seized her ATM card and MTN line and the salary she was making at the time to deny her access to her money”, adding that the last incident was on March 24, 2023.
The IPO further told the court that her investigation also revealed that the couple had a baby who died in October 2022.
She said since then, the first defendant had not been able to conceive again.
“So, they decided that instead of the second defendant getting married again, they would use the survivor to bear children for him.”
The IPO insisted that the survivor was telling the truth during cross-examination by defence attorney Lekan Egberongbe, adding that the first defendant acknowledged this in her statement.
She informed the court that she would not have reported the sexual assault to the Domestic and Sexual Violence Agency or allowed herself to be examined by a doctor at Mirabel Centre if the victim had given her consent.
The witness maintained that because the first defendant had frightened the survivor, she was unable to fight back against the second defendant.
But after hearing the IPO’s testimony, Justice Oshodi postponed the case to February 3, 2025, so that the trial may continue.
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