The Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos State, has sentenced a 24-year-old baker, Adesina Farouk, to life imprisonment for defiling his neighbour’s 15-year-old daughter.

The presiding judge, Justice Rahman Oshodi, on Monday, April 15, 2024, held that the prosecution proved the sole charge of defilement against Farouk.

Justice Oshodi said there was consistent evidence that the convict forcefully had sexual intercourse with the survivor which was not consensual as the convict ripped off her pants and there was blood.

According to the judge, the convict is a pathological liar who tried to lie his way through the case as he said that the survivor was 18 years old and that they were in a relationship but evidence showed that she was born on May 19, 2005.

He said the medical report, the convict’s confessional statement that he and the survivor were lovers, as a result, had sex with her, and the testimony of the girl showed that the convict committed the offence.

Justice Oshodi declared that the medical report showed blunt forceful penetration of the vagina.

The judge added that the medical doctor said the girl looked unhappy when she came for the medical examination.

Man bags life imprisonment for defiling friend’s daughter

Justice Oshodi said: “The survivor testified that the defendant forcefully had sex with her when she went to deliver pure water for him in his house.

“She said when she got to the front of the house and knocked, he did not reply which made her enter the house to drop the water only for the defendant to grab her neck from back, rip off her pants, and forcefully have sexual intercourse with her.

“She said she started bleeding due to the force and the defendant threatened to kill her if she told anyone about it.

“During cross-examination when the defence counsel put it to the survivor that the sex was consensual, she replied ‘if he did not force me, how did my pants got torn’.”

The judge held that the charge of defilement was a grave offence and sentenced Farouk to life imprisonment.

He ordered that the convict’s name be registered in the Lagos State Sexual Offences Register.

The prosecution called four witnesses during trial through whom various exhibits were tendered, while the convict testified as a sole witness.

The prosecutor told the court that the convict committed the offence in the Owutu area of Ikorodu, Lagos State, on December 29, 2020.