Father gets life imprisonment for defiling his 3 underaged children
A Lagos State Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court sitting in Ikeja has sentenced a businessman, Emeka Orisakwe, to life imprisonment for defiling his three underaged children. The minors were aged 10, eight and six. Justice Abiola Soladoye held that the prosecution had proved beyond reasonable doubt the three-count charge bordering on sexual assault by penetration against the defendant. “You are wicked and a pathological liar,” she said, adding that the defendant said his wife was mentally unstable to deny the offence. "This is most bizarre and unfortunate,” she added. She also berated the immediate younger sister of the defendant, 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 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 befor...