COURT SENTENCES MAN TO FOUR LIFE IMPRISONMENT FOR SEXUALLY ASSAULTING HIS THREE CHILDREN

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On Monday, a Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Courts sitting in Ikeja, has sentenced a man, Ademola Oladimeji to four life imprisonment for sexually assaulting his three children.

The children were aged five, seven, and nine.

Delivering judgment, Justice Abiola Soladoye, held that the evidence of the respective prosecution witnesses were believable and truthful.

Soladoye, however, said that their evidence established the offence of sexual assault by penetration and not defilement.

She claimed that the mother of the three survivors and the investigating police officer both supported their testimony.

He said: “Upon careful review of the evidence before the court, the children did not say their father inserted his penis into their ‘bumbum’, they only said he touched their ‘bumbum’.

“I observed the three of them. They did not lie against their father; they did not say he used his penis; he only used his fingers.

“The children gave an unshaken testimonies on how their father fiddle with their innocence multiple times by inserting his fingers into their vaginas.

“The wife of the defendant, in her testimony said the children complained of pain in their privates, and she was informed at the Mirabel Medical Centre that the children had been sexually assaulted.”

The judge added that the defendant was desperate to distance himself from the allegation by denying the offences.

According to her: “To the mind of this court, I do not believe his narration though he denied fiddling his daughters but his testimony did not add up.

“His narration showed how desperate his is to get out of the charge against his own children.

“The court holds that there was penetration as oral and documentary evidence before the court pointed to the fact that defendant messed around with the purity of his three children.”

According to Soladoye, the defendant’s actions were abhorrent, immoral, incestuous, and against the natural order.

The judge subsequently modified the charges to sexual assault by penetration after finding that the prosecution had not proven the three counts that bordered on defilement, and he found him guilty on all of them.

Oladimeji was also found guilty on the fourth count of sexual assault by penetration, and he was given a life sentence on each count.

The judge decided that the sentence would be served consecutively.

According to Soladoye, the convict’s name should be entered into the Lagos State Sexual Offenses Register.

While the convict appeared as a lone witness, state attorney Mrs. Olufunke Adegoke brought five witnesses to support the state’s case.