Folarin Raufu, a 56-year-old driver, was found guilty on Monday by an Ikeja Sexual Offenses and Domestic Violence Court of defiling his employer’s five-year-old granddaughter.
According to NAN, Justice Abiola Soladoye ruled that the prosecution was successful in proving that Raufu possessed all of the elements of defilement.
The convict’s behavior, according to Soladoye, was unsavory.She claims that the minor/survivor presented the sequence of the convict’s defilement of her in a brilliant manner.
She stated, The survivor was clear and unshaken during her questioning, as she talked smoothly and keenly enumerating the violent episode of how her granddad’s driver mercilessly contaminated her in their family room and inside her granddad’s jeep.
“The survivor identified the defendant as Mr. Folarin, who had sex with her in the living room and in the jeep of her grandfather.
“The granddad, who was Arraignment Witness Two (PW2), in his declaration, said that his granddaughter murmured in his ears that the litigant polluted her, which required his capture.”
She depicted the convict as a liar, who attempted to stay away from the charge by guaranteeing that he didn’t comprehend the English Language yet at the same time answered suitably when the court recorder read out the charge in the English Language.
“The litigant denied having sex with the survivor however let the court know that he just established kisses on her cheeks and nestled her.
“He denied making any statement at Ojodu Police Station under cross-examination, but the same statement was tendered and admitted in evidence as Exhibit B,” she stated. “He lied to the court.”
The appointed authority held that proof of the survivor was certified by a clinical report from Mirabel Clinical Center as well as declarations of two other Indictment witnesses.
“The litigant is a selfish jerk who ought to be named and disgraced as a traitorous, inconsistent and conniving representative.”
“The court views you Folarin Raufu to be unquestionablyblameworthy of the offense and thus sentences you to life detainment.”
“The convict ought to have his name enrolled in the sexual offenses register as kept up with by Lagos Express,” the adjudicator said.
According to NAN, Soladoye requested that parents and guardians refrain from leaving their children in the care of “good-for-nothing staff” in order to prevent sexual assault and defilement.
Lagos State counsel, Ms Abimbola Abolade, introduced four observers during the preliminary and offered two records in proof, while the litigant affirmed as the sole guard observer.
The case was prosecuted by the Lagos State Government, which claims that child defilement is a violation of Section 137 of its Criminal Law of 2015.
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