A gateman, Happiness Sunday,has been sentenced to triple life imprisonment by an Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court yesterday for sexually assaulting his employer’s children, ages 10 and eight.
Prosecuting counsel, Mrs Olufunke Adegoke, had arraigned the convict on a three-count charge of defilement and sexual assault by penetration. She said the defendant committed the offences in 2020 on Jaye Oyedotun Street, Magodo, Lagos.
Justice Abiola Soladoye sentenced Sunday, who was the family’s steward and gateman, to life imprisonment on each of the three charges. The sentences would run concurrently.
The court noted that the defendant started assaulting the children and the older child reported to his grandmother to caution him as he was touching the sister inappropriately.
When the female child was asked, she told the grandma that the defendant was also touching her brother inappropriately.
“The matter was reported to CeCe Yara Foundation and subsequently to the police,” the judge held.
Though the defendant denied touching the children, Justice Soladoye said his demeanour was cold and described him as ‘a pathological liar’.
“The defendant is a sexual terrorist who ravished children. He is also a disloyal worker, egoistic, a terrible person whose sexual perversion is unacceptable. His actions are beastly and he should be locked away for life because his conduct is utterly disgraceful,” she said.
She also ordered that the convict’s name be entered in the Lagos State Sexual Offences Register.
