A 34-year-old businessman, Oluwafemi Asekeji, has been sentenced to life imprisonment for sexually assaulting his 12-year-old daughter by the Lagos Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court sitting in Ikeja.
This was disclosed in a statement by the Lagos State Domestic and Sexual Violence Agency.
According to the statement, the presiding judge, Justice Abiola Soladoye, noted that the prosecution had proved the three legs of the charge of rape against Asekeji.
The statement noted that close acquaintances of the victim and the convict who were privy to the incident testified as witnesses against the convict which spurred the decision of the judge to sentence Asekeji to life imprisonment.
Among the key witnesses presented by the prosecutor included the convict’s father, mother and brother whom he had left the victim with.
The statement quoted the judge as saying, “The survivor, in her testimony, told the court that she was 14 years old but her father defiled her when she was 12 years old. She testified that she was at home with her father, who was drunk on June 11, 2020, and he instructed her to enter the room and lie on the bed.
“She told this court that her father asked her to take off her clothes and then he defiled her. She said her father took videos of her and threatened to show the video to people if she told anybody what had happened.”
It added that the court held that the survivor testified that her father instructed her to drink salt water after he had defiled her. The judge said the survivor told the court that she could not tell anyone earlier because the convict had threatened to kill her if she told anyone that he had been sexually abusing her before the last incident of June 11, 2020.
The judge also stated that the medical report revealed that the survivor had been defiled as the report showed the hymen had been broken.
