The Ikeja Sexual Offenses and Domestic Violence Court sentenced a man known as Ademola Oladimeji to four years of life imprisonment for sexually harassing his three daughters on Monday, January 22.
The presiding judge, Justice Abiola Soladoye, who delivered judgment in the case, held that the evidence of the respective prosecution witnesses was believable and truthful. The judge added that their evidence established the offense of sexual assault by penetration and not defilement.
According to her, the evidence of the three survivors was corroborated by the investigative police officer and their mother.
The judge said, “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 about their father; they did not say he used his penis; he only used his fingers. The children gave unshaken testimonies of 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 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.
“To the mind of this court, I do not believe his narration though he denied fiddling with his daughters, his testimony did not add up. His narration shows how desperate he is to escape the charge against his children. The court held 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.”
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