How 33-year-old Driver Raped Employer’s Teenage Daughter– Witness

November 21, 2019

A medical doctor, Olusegun Bankole, on Thursday told a Lagos State Special Offences Court in Ikeja that a 33-year-old driver, Francis Apai, raped his employer’s teenage daughter.

Bankole, who practice at the Alimosho General Hospital in Lagos, made the allegation while testifying at the on going trial of Apai for sexual assault before Justice Sherifat Solebo.

According to the prosecution counsel, Ms M. I. Oshodi, Apai committed the offence on November 19, 2014, in the complainant’s home in Lagos.

She also told the court that the alleged offence contravenes Section 259 of the Criminal Law of Lagos, 2011.

While being led in evidence by the prosecutor, Bankole said that on November 19, 2014, the day of the alleged assault, the 18-year-old complainant (name withheld) was accompanied into the emergency ward of the hospital by a group of people.

He said, “She was said to have been raped by an adult male who she later identified as her parent’s driver.

“The history we got is that the man forcefully dragged her into a room and choked her in the neck with his hands.

“He overpowered her while she was struggling with him, and penetrated her vagina with his penis,” the witness stated.

The doctor said that he made the findings when he examined the complainant.

The witness also told the court that, ”We found a young girl with multiple bruises around her neck and around her two hands.

“We did a vaginal examination in her and it revealed that she had normal female genitalia with multiple bruises around her vulva and a freshly broken hymen,” he said.

The witness further maintained that the complainant underwent some medical examinations and treatments to prevent sexually transmitted diseases.

Bankole testified that on request, he issued a medical report on the alleged victim to the police.

While being cross-examined by defence counsel, Qudus Mumuni, the doctor said that based on the complainant’s history and physical examination, her hymen was ruptured by a penis.

He also said that his name and signature was on the medical report and that he did not see the defendant when the complainant was brought to the hospital.

Justice Solebo adjourned the case to January 7 for continuation of trial.