Lagos State Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos has sentenced the Medical Director of Optimal Cancer Care Foundation, Doctor Olufemi Olaleye, to life imprisonment for sexually assualting his wife’s niece.
The judge, Justice Rahman Oshodi, made the pronouncement on Tuesday, October 24, after he found him guilty of the offence of defilement and sexual penetration of a 15-year-old girl.
The judge noted that the prosecution was able to prove with evidence that Olaleye was guilty as charged.
Olaleye was arraigned on two counts charges which bordered on defilement and sexual assault by penetration of his wife’s niece, preferred against him by the Lagos State Government.
The convict was arraigned on November 30, 2022, and he pleaded not guilty to the offences.
Meanwhile, the Director of Public Prosecutions Dr Babajide Martins had said Olaleye committed the offences sometime between February 2020 and November 2021, adding that the offence took place at No 17, Layi Ogunbambi close, Maryland, Lagos state.
During the trial, the convict’s wife, Aderemi Olaleye, told the court that her husband had been sexually assaulting her niece during her stay with them.
She testified that the convict first introduced pornography and oral sex to the victim and he released sperm into her mouth adding that it started in March 2020 till July 2021.
The witness narrated to Justice Oshodi, that the girl confessed to a relative and their driver that the doctor had been sleeping with her and threatened to kill her and the witness if she told anyone.
According to the prosecution the offences committed contravened Sections 137 and 261, of the criminal law of Lagos State 2015.
Following Olaleye plea of not guilty, Justice Oshodi granted him bail in the sum of N50m with two sureties in like sum who must have landed property in Lagos state.
The judge ordered that both sureties must also provide evidence of tax payments to the Lagos state government in the last three years.
Justice Oshodi further ordered that Olaleye must deposit his international passport including his British passport and original documents of landed property to the registrar of the court.
