How Baba Ijesha engaged his victim in sexual activities —Child forensic expert

 

Baba Ijesha (right) and Princess.

AN Ikeja Sexual Offences Court was, yesterday, told of how Olanrewaju James (alias Baba Ijesha) allegedly engaged his victim, a minor (names withheld) in sexual activities. 

The court was also told how the embattled Nollywood actor groomed his victim before defiling her. 

A child forensic expert, Mrs. Anike Ajayi-Kayode, who is the Executive Director of the Cece Yara Foundation, informed the court that the case of Omiyinka was referred to her by the Special Criminal Investigation Department, SCID, of the Lagos State Command, Nigerian Police Force Forensic Investigation.

Ajayi-Kayode, who was led in evidence by the Director of Public Prosecution, DPP, Mrs. Olayinka Adeyemi, said the outcome of her forensic investigation revealed that “the perpetrator engaged the child in sexual activities twice, when she was seven years old.”

The witness, who is a certified child forensic personnel, told the court that she had participated in over 25 child forensic interviews.

Ajayi-Kayode, who said she interviewed the victim, said that the survivor was relaxed, cooperative and was able to recall events that happened in the past.

Ajayi-Kayode said that the child told her that on the first occasion, her aggressor told her to “remove her pant, sit her on his lap and rub his manhood on her body” and instructed her not to tell anybody.

  She said the child told her that on the second occasion which was on April 19, the perpetrator “inserted his car keys into her virgina” and also told her not to tell anybody.

  The child expert also told the court that the attributes exhibited by the defendant were the dynamics of child sexual abusers and the modus operandi of perpetrators which involves “secrecy, intimidation, threat or coercion.”

  She said the defendant’s attributes were also “similar to that exhibited by child abusers all over the world” due to the vulnerability of their victims.

  The child expert said after interviewing the child, she conducted a forensic investigation on her and wrote a report on her findings adding that this has been compressed into a flash drive.

  However, Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo adjourned to October 20 and 21 for cross-examination of the forensic expert by the defence.

Culled from Vanguard