ALLEGED DEFILEMENT: MY HUSBAND DRUGS ME TO SEXUALLY ASSAULT MY NIECE -DOCTOR'S WIFE TESTIFIES

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By Aishat Momoh. O.

The prosecuting counsel led by the Lagos State Director of Public Prosecution, Babajide Martins, has opened the trial of Dr Femi Olaleye, Chief Medical Director of Optical Care Clinic, who is facing a two-count charge of defilement of a child and sexual assault by penetration.

The trial commenced with the testimony of the first prosecuting witness, Aderemi Olaleye, the doctor’s wife.

On Monday, while Aderemi Olaleye, was giving her testimony before Justice Ramon Oshodi, at the Special Offences and Domestic Violence Court, she mentioned how her husband gave her sleeping pills in the night in order to have oral sex with her 16-year-old niece, Blessing, who is now 18-years-old.

She offloaded the sordid details of how her husband progressed from fingering the girl who calls him ‘daddy’ to having oral sex and eventually have carnal knowledge of her.

Meanwhile, Aderemi told the court that Femi told her their during an intimate moment that he does not like oral sex because according top him, he was an old man. She said, “When I try to get down on him, he will say, no, no, Aderemi, I am an old man”.

The couple got married on 29th March, 2011, making them married for 11 years now and they have two beautiful children together (a son and a daughter).

After the incident, I told my husband to leave the house, for the fear that my daughter could be his next victim, she continued telling the court.

She explained how her husband gave her “junior aspirin” and phernegan every night.

“My lord, Femi, most nights, gives me a small tablet,” she said.

“When I looked at this incident, I wept. How was this incident going on in my home and I did not know?

“Femi gives me medication every night and he claims that it is junior aspirin that will avert blood clots because I’m turning 50 years old soon.

“My lord, maybe a medical examination should be conducted on me. I want to believe that I slept my way through all his atrocities.

“Sometimes, he also gives me phenergan, he will say I work so hard that phenergan will help me relieve my nerves.”

The niece according to the witness came to live with in their home in December 2019, when she was 15-years-old after her guardian who was also Mrs Olaleye’s mother died.

She added that her husband had been sexually assaulting her niece from March 2020 to November 2021 at their Maryland residence in Lagos.

“Femi has been sexually abusing her, He introduced her to pornography…and graduated to oral sex,” she said.

She also explained how during the oral sex, he “released in her mouth.”

She further said that after she must have slept, he goes out of their bedroom around 2am, to have carnal knowledge of her niece, “almost on a daily basis,” in areas where the cameras do not cover.

Mrs. Olaleye stated that her niece told her aunt that he had anal sex with her in his study and threatened to murder her, his wife, and their children if she told anyone.

When asked about the situation by the state counsel, Babatunde Martins, she stated that her niece’s unpleasant behavior was brought to light by the family nanny.

“When I called her, she gave a long hiss. I disciplined her and told her to be respectful and peaceful,” she said.

When my husband came back from work, and his children told him what transpired, “he went into her room to pacify her.

“I told him that we ought to bring her up together. Instead, he yelled at me and said that the worst thing that I could say was that he was sleeping with her.”

She told the court that Mr Olaleye took the victim to her aunt’s house.

“At my aunt’s house, my aunt told him that what happened was not enough to bring the victim to her house,” she added.

“After he left the victim in my aunt’s house. My aunt, who is a retired school principal and psychologist, asked the victim what happened and she confessed to her.

“My aunt called and told me what happened and she said I should not tell Femi about it so that he won’t hurt me.”

The mother of two also added that her niece confessed in her presence while she was at her aunt’s place, after which, she immediately went to Anthony Police Division to report the matter.

Days later, he was arrested, she said.

The entrepreneur told the court that after her husband’s arrest, the Divisional Police Officer (DPO), called her.

Meanwhile during the meeting with the DPO and his lawyer, “he broke down in tears and confessed that he had …sex” while being visually recorded by the police.

He signed an undertaking to stay away from her and the children, ” I don’t want him around my children, and home.

“I told his lawyer that if he could sleep with my niece that calls him daddy, he could sleep with our daughter.”

She also, told the court that after signing an undertaking, he sent apologetic messages via WhatsApp and Emails “that it was the work of the devil.”

When Babatunde Ogala, SAN, the defense counsel, questioned Mrs. Olaleye during the cross-examination regarding the date the victim first communicated to her about the abuse, she said that it was November 27, 2021.

Ogala followed up by asking if her husband had ever approved ownership of the car, she retorted, “He didn’t.”

She said, “There is no CCTV in my living room; only the dining area has CCTV,” when asked if there was any in the house.

At the instance of her response, Ogala requested permission from the court to play a video recording during the trial.

The request was granted, and a 39 seconds video of the victim being beaten by the witness was also played.

Ogala requested that the witness name every person in the video, which she did.

She acknowledged that she had previously admitted to correcting the girl when he inquired who was beating her.

She added in her statement that the video was recorded on November 26 or 27, 2021.
Two other videos were also shown, lasting 59 and 57 seconds each, showing the witness pounding the victim and seeming extremely irate.

Mr. Ogala further asked if there was any other case in court, and she replied that there is a protective order from Magistrate Taiwo of the Yaba Family Court.

On the alleged one million, eight hundred and eighty thousand (N 1, 880,000) collected from her husband, Aderemi, said it was part salaries for domestic staff, children’s instructors and other bills.

Thereafter, the prosecuting counsel, Dr. Babajide Martins continued the case with re-examination of prosecution witness, Aderemi Olaleye, and Justice Rahmon Oshodi discharged her afterwards.

The trial continued with a second prosecuting witness, who was the family driver, Waheed Yusuf, but the defense counsel objected on the basis that he was in the court when the first witness testified and justice Oshodi ordered Yusuf steps down from being prosecution witness.

Justice Rahmon Oshodi however, adjourned the case to the next scheduled date, December 21, 2022 for continuation.