Justice Abiola Soladoye of a Lagos State Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court, Ikeja, has sentenced a man, Ademola Oladimeji to four life imprisonment for sexually assaulting his three daughters.
The sexually assaulted daughters are aged five, seven, and nine.
Passing judgment on the sexual assault charge slammed against Oladimeji by the Lagos State Government (LASG), Justice Soladoye declared that the evidence of the respective prosecution witnesses was believable and truthful.
The judge, however, held that their evidence established the offence of sexual assault by penetration and not defilement.
Justice Soladoye who insisted that the evidence of the three survivors was corroborated with the Investigative Police Officer (IPO) and that of their mother, held that “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 vagina.
“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 defendant was desperate to distance himself from the allegation by denying the offence.
“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 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.”
Justice Soladoye posited that the conduct of the defendant was despicable, morally corrupt, and incestuous and against the order of nature.
The trial judge maintained that the prosecution failed to establish the three counts bordering on defilement, thereafter changed it to sexual assault by penetration and convicted him on each of the counts.
The judge also convicted Oladimeji of the fourth count charge of sexual assault by penetration and sentenced him to life imprisonment on each count.
The judge, who held that the sentence would run concurrently, ordered that the name of the convict be registered in the Lagos State Sexual Offences Register.
