Justice Abiola Soladoye of the Lagos State Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court in Ikeja has jailed a businessman, Emeka Orisakwe, for the rest of his life for defiling his three underage children.
Justice Soladoye handed down the verdict after holding that the prosecution had proved beyond reasonable doubt the three-count charge bordering on sexual assault by penetration against the convict.
The minors were aged 10, eight, and six.
The state deputy director of the Department of Public Prosecution (DPP), Olusola Soneye, had told the court that Orisakwe committed the offences between January and July 2021 at No.32 Ganiyat St., Monkey Village, Maza Maza, Lagos.
In her judgment, Justice Soladoye described the convict as “wicked and a pathological liar”.
She also berated the immediate younger sister of the convict, who testified as the first defence witness, (DW1) for tendering a medical report concerning the mental state of the defendant’s wife which did not correlate with the timing of the incident.
The judge also said that DW1 evidence was unreliable as it was a pack of lies tainted by deception after she had corrupted the minds of the survivors to lie before the court.
“The children were very honest but I observed the three children that came to testify and this court could see that their aunt, whom they stayed with after the incident, had been working on their brains to tell lies before this court.
“The children’s subsequent denial in court after they made statements at Satellite Police Station that their father messed around their vaginas with his fingers is an afterthought and very unfortunate.
“The children were taken away from the custody of their mother and the sister-in-law painted lies in their minds.
“This court cannot be fooled. The DW1 is a liar and a wicked sister-in-law, whose evidence is self-serving to save her brother from drowning.’’
“The medical reports which were carried out on the three children and admitted into evidence before this court showed bruises on the inner surface, blunt and forceful penetration of the survivor’s vaginas.
Soladoye thereby convicted the defendant of the 3-count charge and subsequently sentenced him to life imprisonment on each of the counts.
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