A medical examination conducted on the victim showed blunt penetration of her vagina.
By Cypher Ilerioluwa
Duduspree News, Texas
A 20-year-old lady, whose identity was yet to be disclosed, has narrated how some unknown hoodlums raped her in an uncompleted building.
Aniekan Makanjuola, a staff member of the Women at Risk International Foundation, gave an account of the rape victim’s ordeal to an Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence and Sexual Court in Lagos.
While at the court on Thursday, February 9, 2023, Makanjuola stated that one Idowu Omashegbe, and others at large, committed the crime.
According to the medical doctor, who served as a witness in the court, the victim, during a medical examination at the facility on March 16, 2020, gave details of how the defendant and others still at large allegedly dragged her to an uncompleted building, robbed her of a phone and forcefully had sexual intercourse with her.
The witness was led in evidence by the state counsel, Inumidun Solarin.
The witness said, “She (victim) said after the boys left, they came out but unknown to them, another group of armed boys accosted them and collected their phones.
“The victim said the boys also collected a phone from her belonging to another person, and she begged them to return the phone but the boys insisted she must follow them before they could give her the phone.
“She said when they got to a location, the boys told her they would only give her the phone if they had sex with her and she said out of fear, she agreed and each of the boys took turns to have sex with her.”
The witness explained further that the victim told her that two of the boys that earlier raped her, again, and ran after her after she boarded a tricycle and dragged her into an uncompleted building.
“She said the two boys came on a bike and blocked the tricycle, ordered her out of it, took her to an uncompleted building and had sexual intercourse with her.
“She said they also locked her up in the building after collecting her phone. The victim said she was able to come out of the building and met some officers whom she reported the incident to, and they followed her back to the building where one of the boys was apprehended,” the doctor added.
Having heard from the witness, Justice Ramon Oshodi, who presided over the matter in court, adjourned the case till Friday, May 5, 2023, for the continuation of trial.
