Court Jails Father For Life For Defiling Teenage Daughter
Justice Abiola Soladoye of the Lagos State Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court has convicted and sentenced a father, Adewale Ibitoye, to life imprisonment for having sexual intercourse with his 14-year-old daughter.
Justice Soladoye also jailed Ibitoye’s friend, Moses Okrukpe, for the rest of his life for raping and impregnating the survivor at the age of 14.
The judge handed down the verdicts after she held that the prosecution had successfully proven the charge of defilement against the two convicts.
Soladoye also ordered that the convicts, who she described as beasts and uncultured, shall have their names written in the Lagos State Sexual Offenders Register.
The state government had claimed that the convicts committed the offence sometime in 2017 in Epe, Agbowa, Lagos, in violation of Section 137 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015
The prosecutor, Olusola Soneye, had presented three witnesses during the trial while the convicts testified on their own behalf.
In her judgment, the judge condemned, what she described as the barbaric action of the first convict of having sex with her underage daughter several times before passing her to his friend for a pseudo-marriage, over a bottle of gin.
The judget stated, “the survivor, testified that her father had sexual intercourse with her on several occasions and that her father gave out her hand in marriage to the second convict after he visited their house and gifted her father, a bottle of gin.
“She said that the second convict had sexual intercourse with her which led to pregnancy and the first defendant in his testimony, confirmed that he collected a bottle of gin from his friend as wedding rights.