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By Emmanuel Adeleke
The Managing Director of Optimal Cancer Care Foundation, Femi Olaleye, has been sentenced to life imprisonment for raping his wife’s niece.
Delivering judgement in a suit filed by the Lagos State Government, Justice Rahman Oshodi of the Special Offences and Domestic Violence Court sitting in Ikeja, , on Tuesday, convicted Olaleye on a two-count charge of defilement of a 15-year-old girl and sexual assault by penetration.
The judge ruled that the defendant should serve life imprisonment for count one and two.
Olaleye was arraigned on two counts which bordered on defilement and sexual assault by penetration of his wife’s niece.
The convict was arraigned on November 30, 2022, and he pleaded not guilty to the offences.
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.
Olaleye was accused of unlawfully having sexual intercourse with his wife’s 15-year-old niece.
He was also accused of sexually assaulting the teenager by penetrating her mouth with his penis.
According to the prosecution the offences committed contravened Sections 137 and 261, of the criminal law of Lagos State 2015.
Following his 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.
During the trial, the convict’s wife, Aderemi Olaleye, told the court that her husband had been sexually abusing 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.
She said 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.