Painter gets life jail for defiling 14-year old neighbour’s daughter
AN Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court has sentenced a painter, Sunday Ajibade, to life imprisonment for defiling a 14-year old daughter of his neighbour. Justice Abiola Soladoye held that the prosecution had proved beyond reasonable doubts, the charge of defilement against Ajibade, a resident of Abule-Egba in Lagos. Soladoye also held that the court found the survivor’s evidence straight, neat and uncontroversial as she identified the defendant, who sent her to bring his torn clothe from the room and hurriedly followed her, pulled out a knife, threatened her and forcefully had sex with her. According to Soladoye, the defendant is a pathological liar, who feeds on the innocence of the survivor. “The survivor told this court that she went to sew a piece of cloth at her neighbour’s house, who is a tailor, when the defendant beckoned on her to help him bring his torn clothe from his room. “She said that as soon as she entered his room, the defendant ran after her, ...