The Lagos State Commission on Sexual Offenses and Domestic Violence sitting in Ikeja on Tuesday sentenced the Medical Director of Optimal Cancer Care Foundation, Doctor Olufemi Olaleye, to life imprisonment for the defilement of his wife’s niece.
In November 2022, Olaleye was arraigned by the Lagos state government on a two-count charge of defilement of a child and sexual assault by penetration.
Justice Rahman Oshodi sentenced him after he found him guilty of the offense of defilement and sexual penetration of a 15-year-old girl.
The judge held that the prosecution was able to prove its case beyond reasonable doubt and that all the evidence before the court corroborated that of the victim.
The judge held that the prosecution was able to prove its case beyond reasonable doubt and that all the evidence before the court corroborated that of the victim.
Olaleye was accused of unlawfully having sexual intercourse with his wife’s 15-year-old niece. He was also accused of sexually assaulting the teenager by penetrating her mouth with his penis.
According to the prosecution the offences committed contravened Sections 137 and 261, of the criminal law of Lagos State 2015. Following his plea of not guilty, Justice Oshodi granted him bail in the sum of N50 million with two sureties in like sum He must have landed property in Lagos State.
The judge ordered that both sureties must also provide evidence of tax payments to the Lagos state government in the last three years. Justice Oshodi further ordered that Olaleye must deposit his international passport, including his British passport, and original documents of landed property with the registrar of the court.
During the trial, the convict’s wife, Aderemi Olaleye, told the court that her husband had been sexually abusing her niece during her stay with them.
She testified that the convict first introduced pornography and oral sex to the victim, and he released sperm into her mouth.
She said it started in March 2020 and ended in July 2021.
The mother of two, who is the complainant said on oath, “My lord, on November 27, 2021, my second cousin told my aunty, who is my mother’s sister, that since March 2020 Femi has been sexually abusing her and introduced her to pornography; from there, he graduated to oral sex with her, and that he does this in different places in the home where there are no cameras.”
Oshodi convicted Olaleye of defiling and sexually contacting a 15-year-old minor and established that the prosecution was able to prove its case beyond reasonable doubt and that all the evidence before the court corroborated that of the victim.
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