Court Sentences Man To Life Imprisonment For Sexually Assaulting His 3 Children

Ikeja, Lagos State- An Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court on Monday, sentenced a man identified as Ademola Oladimeji to four life imprisonment for sexually assaulting his three children aged five, seven, and nine.

In rendering the verdict for the case, Justice Abiola Soladoye, the presiding judge, asserted that the testimony given by the prosecution witnesses was credible and truthful.

The judge further stated that the evidence substantiated the charge of sexual assault through penetration rather than defilement. She pointed out that the accounts provided by the three survivors were supported by both the investigative police officer and their mother.

“Upon careful review of the evidence before the court, the children did not say their father inserted his penis into their ‘bum bum’, they only said he touched their ‘bum bum’. 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 unshaken testimonies on how their father fiddled 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 private and she was informed at the Mirabel Medical Centre that the children had been sexually assaulted.” the judge held

The judge  noted that the defendant exhibited a sense of desperation in attempting to disassociate himself from the accusations by outrightly denying the offenses.

“To the mind of this court, I do not believe his narration though he denied fiddling with his daughters but his testimony did not add up. His narration shows how desperate he 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 the defendant messed around with the purity of his three children.”

Soladoye said the conduct of the defendant was despicable, morally corrupt, incestuous, and against the order of nature. The judge, who said the prosecution failed to establish the three-count bordering on defilement, thereafter changed it to sexual assault by penetration and convicted him on each of the counts.

Furthermore, she found Oladimeji guilty of the fourth count charge, which pertained to sexual assault by penetration. As a result, the judge sentenced him to life imprisonment for each count.

The sentence, the judge held, would run concurrently. The judge added that the name of the convict would be registered in the Lagos State Sexual Offences Register.