The managing director of the Optimal Cancer Care Foundation, Femi Olaleye, was sentenced to life imprisonment on Tuesday for raping his wife’s niece.
Olaleye was convicted on a two-count charge of defilement of a child and sexual assault by penetration.
Rahman Oshodi, the judge at the special offences and domestic violence court in Lagos, ruled that Olaleye should serve life imprisonment for count one and the same for count two.
Also, Justice Oshodi said the sentencing should run concurrently.
According to Justice Oshodi, the victim was raped and made to suck the defendant’s manhood, as evidenced by the statement and undertaking he signed at Anthony Police Station with his lawyer Olalekan Buruji and his NBA seal.
Oshodi convicted Olaleye of defiling and sexually contacting a 15-year-old minor and established that the prosecution was able to prove its case beyond reasonable doubt and that all the evidence before the court corroborated that of the victim.
Olaleye was charged with a two-count charge of defilement and sexual assault by penetration of his wife’s niece, offences which he was alleged to have committed between March 2020 and November 2021.
The defendant was first arraigned on 30 November 2022, and he pleaded not guilty to the offences.
The prosecution presented at least seven witnesses. However, one was “withdrawn.”
Witnesses that testified during the legal battle include the defendant’s wife, who reported the case to the police, the alleged survivor, (name withheld); a child forensic specialist, Bisi Ajayi-Kayode; police inspector Esther Igbineweka; medical examiner Akinbunmi Oyebimpe and Abe Leonard, a police officer.
