An Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court on Tuesday sentenced a 42-year-old man, Suleimon Usman to life imprisonment for defiling his eight-years old daughter.
Usman was charged with a two-count charge bordering on defilement, which he had pleaded not guilty to.
Justice Rahmon Oshodi in his judgment, however, discharged and acquitted the defendant of the second charge.
Oshodi held that the prosecution failed to prove the second charge against the defendant as the second victim did not testify in the trial.
“The testimony of the first survivor corroborate the evidence of the medical doctor.
“The survivor said that she felt pain in her bombom when her father put his finger in her virginal and also inserted his penis in her anus.
“I have considered the ingredients of the offences; the confessional statement, circumstantial evidence and the eye witness account.
“I do not believe that the first survivor was tutored. I reiterated that her evidence is credible.
“Regardless, I have already received eye witness account, where the survivor said ‘my daddy used to carry me every night from our room and put me in parlour and put his penis in my bombom’,”
The judge further held that the prosecution provided evidence of medical doctor who examined the survivor.
“The medical report showed redness in the virginal lips, the anus was loosen and getting healed and there was penetration in the survivor anus.
“I am convinced that the medical doctor evidence corroborate the survivor’s.
“The mother said the crime scene is their family parlour. I do not consider the defendant testimony as credible.
“I find the defendant guilty of count one and he is hereby sentenced to life imprisonment,”Oshodi said.
The state counsel, Ms Inumidun Solarin, presented four witnesses; first survivor, the eight-years old girl, an Investigative Police Officer (IPO), mother of survivor and the medical doctor from Mirabel center while defence called three witnesses during trial.
The prosecutor said the convict committed the offence which is contrary to section 137 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State 2015, at No. 2Bale St., Onisewo in Apapa, Lagos.
