Defilement Of Minor: Appeal Court To Deliver Judgement In Case Against Dr Olaleye On Friday
The medical director of the Optimal Cancer Care Foundation, Dr. Olufemi Olaleye, will be sentenced to a two-count defilement and sexual assault charge by the court of appeal sitting in Lagos on Friday for his conviction and sentencing.
The parties to the lawsuit who confirmed this to Channels Television on Thursday received a copy of the court’s decision.
Dr. Olaleye was given a life sentence by Lagos State’s Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court in October 2023 after defiling his wife’s 16-year-old niece.
Justice Oshodi ruled that the prosecution and the Lagos State government had established a compelling case against the defendant.
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According to the judge, Olaleye’s confessional statement before his former counsel, Mr Olalekan Buruji, and the Divisional Police Officer at the Anthony Police Station, Lagos State, proved that he committed the offences.
According to the judge, Olaleye admitted regretting his actions in the statement.
Additionally, the judge ruled that Olaleye’s denial of the statement at trial was untrue.
The medical director was described by Justice Oshodi as a risky offender who lacked any regrets during the trial.
Olaleye was found guilty of the offence by the court, who also ordered his name to appear in the Lagos State Government’s Sexual Offences Register.
During the trial, the convict’s wife, Aderemi Olaleye, had told the court in her testimony that her husband had been sexually abusing her niece during her stay in their house.
After the survivor admitted to her aunt and the family’s driver that the doctor had been sleeping with her and threatened to kill her if she told anyone, Mrs. Olaleye claimed to have learned about the alleged crimes.
The mother of two, who is the complainant said on oath, “My lord, on November 27, 2021, my second cousin told my aunty who is my mother’s sister that since March 2020, Femi has been sexually abusing her and introduced her to pornography, from there he graduated to oral sex with her, that he does this in different places in the house where there are , no , cameras”.
These offenses are in contravention of the 2015 Criminal Law of Lagos State’s Sections 137 and 261.
Dissatisfied with the judgment, Dr Olaleye in Nov. 2023, approached the court of appeal seeking to overturn the decision.
The appellant argued at the hearing of the appeal on September 24, 2024, that the lower court erred when, without any direct evidence, it established that the alleged victim of the crime was a 16-year-old child at the time of the offence, adding that no one who had witnessed the birth of the alleged victim of the crime had any direct evidence.
Source: Channels TV
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