By Felix Kuyinu
One Ademola Oladimeji has been sent to life jail for sexual molestation of his three daughters in Lagos.
Arraigned at the Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court, Oladimeji was accused of the assault on the minors of ages five, seven and nine.
Justice Abiola Soladoye, while delivering the judgment on Monday held that the evidence of the prosecution witnesses were believable and truthful.
She stressed that the genital penetration of the three victims as presented by the investigative police officer and their mother at the court prove that the accused commited the crime.
The state counsel, Mrs Olufunke Adegoke, called five witnesses who testified against the convict to proof of its case while the convict testified as a sole witness.
Soladoye said, “Upon a careful review of the evidence before the court, the children did not say their father inserted his penis in them, 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 genitals.
“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 further said that the convict 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 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 convict messed around with the purity of his three children.”
Soladoye said the conduct of the convict was despicable, morally corrupt, incestuous and against the order of nature establishing a four-count-charge bordering on sexual assault by penetration and convicted him on each of the counts, sentencing him to life imprisonment on each count.
She held that the sentence would run concurrently, also noting that the name of the convict should be registered in the Lagos State Sexual Offences Register.
