Man gets life sentence for sexually assaulting 3 children
AN Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court has sentenced a man, Ademola Oladimeji to four life imprisonment for sexually assaulting his three children. The children were aged five, seven and nine. Delivering judgment, Justice Abiola Soladoye, said that the evidence of the respective prosecution witnesses were believable and truthful. Soladoye, however, said that their evidence established the offence of sexual assault by penetration and not defilement. According to her, the evidence of the three survivors was corroborated by the investigative police officer and their mother. He said: “Upon careful review of the evidence before the court, the children did not say their father inserted his penis into their ‘bum bum’, they only said he touched their ‘bum bum’. “I observed the three of them. They did not lie against their father, they did not say he used his penis, he only used his fingers. “The children gave an unshaken testimony on how their father fiddles with their innocence ...