Lagos court sentences father to life imprisonment for sexually assaulting his three children

An Ikeja sexual offences and domestic violence court in Lagos has sentenced one Ademola Oladimeji to life imprisonment for sexually assaulting his three children. 

According to NAN, Oladimeji was sentenced to life imprisonment on each of the four-count charges, bordering on sexual assault by penetration, filed against him.

The children are aged five, seven, and nine.

Giving the ruling on Monday, Abiola Soladoye, the presiding judge, said the evidence presented by the prosecution’s witnesses is believable and truthful.

Soladoye ruled that the witnesses’ testimonies established that the offence of sexual assault by penetration was committed and not defilement.

The judge ruled that the children did not say their father inserted his penis in their private parts, but he inserted his fingers.

“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 judge said.

“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 parts, and she was informed at the Mirabel Medical Centre that the children had been sexually assaulted.”

The judge held that the father tried to deny the allegations against him, noting that his testimony did not add up.

The judge said the action of the father was “despicable, morally corrupt, incestuous, and against the order of nature”.

“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,” the judge said.

“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.”

The judge ruled that the name of the defendant should be registered in the Lagos state sexual offences register.