Doctor Gives Minor Pills After Defiling Her, Witness Tells Court

A prosecution witness, Dr Akinbunmi Oyebimpe, has narrated to the Lagos State Domestic Violence and Sexual Offences Court in Ikeja how 57-year-old medical director, Dr Olufemi Olaleye, in his sexual assault, forced his victim to take pills to prevent pregnancy.

The witness, who is a medical doctor in family medicine at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH) also told the trial judge, Justice Ramon Oshodi that the result of the medical examination he conducted on the survivor confirmed injuries consistent with repeated, forceful and blunt penetration of her vagina.

Olaleye, who is the founder of Optimal Care Centre, was arraigned before the court on an alleged two-count charge of defilement and sexual penetration against a minor.

The defendant allegedly committed the offences between February 2020 and November 2021 on Layi Ogunbambi Close, Maryland, Lagos.

The prosecution claimed that the offences violated sections 137 and 261 of the Criminal Laws of Lagos State, 2015.

The defendant, however, pleaded not guilty to the charge.

At the resumed hearing of the matter yesterday, Dr Oyebimpe, who is the fifth prosecution witness, told Justice Oshodi that the survivor was referred to the hospital by the Gender Section of the Lagos State Police Headquarters, Ikeja, with a complaint of repeated sexual abuse since March 2020 by her aunt husband, Olaleye.

The medical doctor, while being led in evidence by the Lagos State director of public prosecutions (DPP) Babajide Martins, said the survivor was presented at the hospital on March 15, 2022, along with her aunt.

During the medical history taken by the team, the witness added that the survivor told them the defendant usually calls her at night and that he will remove his trousers and tell her to perform oral sex on him.

The medical expert went on to say that the survivor told her, “He (the defendant) sometimes puts his fingers in her vagina, then he applies a lubricant on her vagina and will penetrate her with his penis. She said it happened about four times and that he gives her pills to take afterwards and he would threaten her that she would die if she tells anyone.”

Justice Oshodi  adjourned the matter to January 26, 2023, for the continuation of the trial.