Doctor Femi Olaleye sentenced to life imprisonment for defiling wife’s 15-year-old niece

A Special Offences and Domestic Violence Court in Ikeja, Lagos has sentenced the medical director of Optimal Cancer Care Foundation Dr Femi Olaleye to life imprisonment for defiling his wife’s 15-year-old niece.

Olaleye was found guilty on Tuesday of the offence of defilement and sexual penetration.

Justice Rahman Oshodi said all the evidence before the court corroborated that of the victim.

Olaleye was arraigned on two counts which bordered on defilement and sexual assault by penetration of his wife’s niece, preferred against him by the Lagos State Government.

The convict was arraigned on November 30, 2022, and he pleaded not guilty to the offences.

Director of Public Prosecutions Babajide Martins had told the court that Olaleye committed the offences sometime between February 2020 and November 2021.

He said the offence happened at No 17, Layi Ogunbambi Close, Maryland, Lagos.

During the trial, the convict’s wife, Aderemi Olaleye, told the court that her husband sexually abused 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.

Mrs Olaleye 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.

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 home where there are no cameras.”