Man Bags Life Imprisonment for Defiling Teenage Neighbour
The Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court on Monday sentenced a 24-year-old baker, Adesina Farouk, to life imprisonment for defiling his neighbour’s 15-year-old girl (name withheld). Justice Rahman Oshodi held that the prosecution proved the sole charge of defilement against Farouk.
Oshodi said there was consistent evidence that the convict forcefully had sexual intercourse with the survivor (prosecutrix), which was not consensual, as the convict ripped off her pants, and there was blood everywhere.
The judge said, “It is an offence that leaves its scars on its victims, both physically and emotionally and can have long-lasting effects on their mental health and overall well-being. In this case, the evidence presented before the court has established that on November 29, 2020, you had forceful sexual intercourse with the 15-year-old victim, who was your neighbour.
“The medical evidence corroborate the violence nature of the act with medical doctor noting the hymenial laceration and your action has not only violated the prosecutrix bodily integrity, but also breaks the trust that exists between neighbour’s living in the same compound.”
According to the judge, the convict is a pathological liar who tried to lie his way through the case as he said that the prosecutrix was 18 years old and that they were in a relationship, but evidence showed that she was born on May 19, 2005.
The judge said that the medical report, the convict’s confessional statement that he and the prosecutrix were lovers and, as a result, had sex with her, and the testimony of the prosecutrix showed that the convict committed the offence.
He said that the medical report showed blunt, forceful penetration of the vagina, and according to the medical doctor, the prosecutrix looked very unhappy when she came for the medical examination.
“The prosecutrix testified that the defendant forcefully had sex with her when she went to deliver pure water for him in his house. She said when she got to the front of the house and knocked, he did not reply, which made her enter the house to drop the water, only for the defendant to grab her neck from the back, rip off her pants and forcefully have sexual intercourse with her,” stated the judge.
He said further, “According to her, she started bleeding due to the force, and the defendant threatened to kill her if she told anyone about it. During cross-examination, when the defence counsel put it to the prosecutrix that the sex was consensual, she replied, ‘If he did not force me, how did my pants get torn?’.”