A policewoman, who is also the Investigating Police Officer on a defilement case, Happiness Eche, on Wednesday, told a Lagos State High Court in Ikeja that a security guard, Abass Hamman, claimed that the devil pushed him to defile a seven-year-old girl.
Hamman is facing one count of child defilement contrary to and punishable under Section 137 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2011.
According to the police, Hamman defiled his victim through her private parts and anus.
While being led in evidence by the prosecutor, Adebayo Haroun, Eche said, “Any time I asked him why he did it, he would say nah devil cause am.
“The victim told me that the defendant would ask her to bend down against the wall before committing the act.
“In the course of our investigation, I visited the scene of the rape and confirmed the fingerprints of the victim on the wall against which she leaned when being defiled by the defendant.”
Another witness for the prosecution, Dr Alape Oyedeji, from Mirabel Centre, Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, gave a detailed report of the medical test carried out on the victim.
He said, “From the outer lips of the vagina, it was normal; but going inward inside the lips, it was found to be reddened. Furthermore, at the entrance of the vagina, we found remnants of the hymen which was also reddened.
“Evidence equally showed lacerations that were healing in the hymen.
“Furthermore, on the floor of the vagina, there was evidence of lacerations also trying to heal, but was reddened.
“There was also assault to the anus. There were lacerations in three locations which we called 5 o’clock, 6 o’clock and 7 o’clock in medical terms.
“The doctors that conducted the examination on the victim came to the conclusion that their findings were in line with the report of the victim that what must have happened was a penal penetration.”
He added that milky discharge, which could either be semen or mucous substance, was found inside the victim’s private parts.
He, however, said the lacerations and redness of the private parts and anus of the victim were as a result of the viciousness of the penetration.
The presiding judge, Justice Sedoten Ogunsanya, adjourned the matter till December 19, 2017.
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