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A Prosecution Witness, Olayemi Hosa, on Wednesday narrated to the Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court how her husband, Olumuyiwa Adjoto, allegedly raped her sister’s six-year-old granddaughter, at their home in Mowo, Badagry, Lagos in 2022.
Hosa, a trader who spoke in Yoruba and translated in English language, told Justice Rahman Oshodi that the victim had come to spend the Easter holidays in their home when the defendant defiled her.
She testified that the incident happened on April 19, 2022, when the victim came for a two-week Easter holiday.
The defendant is standing trial for alleged defilement of the minor who is now eight years old.
The witness who was led in evidence in chief by the Lagos State prosecution counsel Inumidun Solarin told the court that before the incident occurred, she had asked the victim to go and greet the defendant on Wednesday morning when she woke up.
She stated that the victim came to inform her that her husband gave her money and she then asked the victim what she said to the defendant and she replied that she told him “Thank you”.
Hosa, who is the second prosecution witness, narrated that she had left her sister’s granddaughter at home with her husband to go to Idumota Market, adding that upon arrival, she found out that the girl had been sexually defiled by her husband.
