Lagos-based medical Doctor; Femi Olaleye has been sentenced to life imprisonment for raping his wife's niece. Olaleye the managing director of Optimal Cancer Care Foundation was tried at the special offences and domestic court in Lagos on 24th October 2023, by Judge Rahman Oshodi on a two-count charge of defilement of a child and assault by penetration. 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. The judge held 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 arraigned on 30 November 2022, and he pleaded not guilty to the offences.
The prosecution presented at least seven witnesses. However, one was “withdrawn.” The witnesses 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, police officer.
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.
The Director of Public Prosecutions Dr Babajide Martins had told the court that Olaleye had committed the offences sometime between February 2020 and November 2021. He said the offence took place at No 17, Layi Ogunbambi close, Maryland, Lagos state.
