Justice Abiola Soladoye of the Lagos State Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court sitting in Ikeja, has sentenced a 79 -year old carpenter, Olagbade Jeremiah, to life imprisonment for sexually assaulting a 12 year-old girl.
While delivering his judgement, Justice Soladoye held that the prosecution was able to prove the offence of defilement against the convict without reasonable doubt.
According to the lead prosecution counsel, Olusola Soneye, a Director of Public Prosecution, Lagos state ministry of justice, Jeremiah was arraigned on a count charge of sexual assault by penetration which contravened Section 261 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015.
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Soneye, told the court that the convict, at his workshop in Mammy Barracks market in the Ojo area of Lagos state, sexually assaulted the victim by inserting his finger into her vagina, over a period of time in 2021 and called three witnesses during trial, including the victim.
Delivering her judgment, Soladoye held that the victim testified that she used to hawk sachet water and that the convict used to buy every sachet water in her possession whenever she was not able to sell everything.
According to the judge, the victim stated in her testimony that she was given N100 by the convict every time he performed the act on her.
She said, “He usually gave me money.
Before he gives me the money, he removes my pants.
Every time it happens, he gives me N100.”
Justice Soladoye also stated that the victim did not inform anybody about the incident because she was afraid her mother would beat her.
She said the victim’s mother beat her up when she found out and gave her sachet water to hawk.
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