Man Who R3ped 85-Year-Old Grandmother Sentenced To Life Imprisonment
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A man, Durodola Kayode Ogundele has been sentenced for life by an
Ekiti State High Court sitting in Ado Ekiti for r3ping an 85 years old
grandmother.
The convict was arraigned before Justice Monisola
Abodunde on one count charge bordering on r3pe.
The charge reads
that ”Durodola Kayode Ogundele, on the 15th day of June 2021 at Ayetoro Ekiti
in Ido/Osi Local Government Area of Ekiti State, within the jurisdiction of
the honourable court, did rape an eighty-five years old woman.
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”The offence is contrary to section 2 of the Ekiti State Gender-Based
Violence (Prohibition) Law, 2019.
In her testimony before the
court, the victims’ daughter, Opeyemi Bolaji said, I came to give my mother
breakfast, on getting to her, I found her in an unsettling physical condition,
after finished eating and upon further prompting to find out the reason for
her restlessness, she told me that the defendant did not allow her to sleep,
she said the defendant came to her room around 1:00am, he rubbed a balm all
over her body, including her anus and vagina, massaged her body, sucked her
breast and forcefully had s3x with her, she concluded.
When I tried
to find out from the defendant, he said, my mother must have been dreaming.
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The matter was first reported at Ido Ekiti Police Station before it was
transferred to the State Criminal Investigation Department of the Nigerian
Police Force, Ado Ekiti.
To prove his case, the prosecutor,
Barrister Folasade Alli called five witnesses including the Investigating
Police Officer and a Medical Doctor, she tendered the victims’ statement,
defendants’ statement, and a medical report from Federal Teaching Hospital,
Ido Ekiti among others as exhibits while the defendant spoke in his own
defense through his counsel, M.O. Folorunso, he called no witnesses.
In her judgment, Justice Monisola Abodunde said, I am therefore
not in doubt that prosecution has finally established through circumstantial
evidence, that it is cogent, compelling and most conclusively, that the
defendant intentionally and calculatedly penetrated the vagina and anus of the
victim with his p3nis after rubbing a dark balm on her body and private
part.
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On the whole, I find that the prosecution has discharged an evidential burden
placed on them in law by circumstantial evidence, supported by the totality of
the combined evidence of the witnesses, corroborated by the extra-judicial
statements of the victim made at the earliest opportunity.
The
defendant is found guilty as charged for R3pe contrary to Section 2 of the
Ekiti State Gender-Based Violence (Prohibition Law) 2019 and he is convicted,
and accordingly sentenced to Life Imprisonment in line with Section 2 (2) of
Ekiti State Gender-Based Violence (Prohibition Law) 2019.
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