Rituals Femi Olalaye Optimal Care MD goes through before taking on his victim

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Dr Akinbunmi Oyebimpe, a medical and forensic expert at Mirabel Center, Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH) testifies against MD, Optimal Healthcare
Dr. Femi Olaleye, MD, Optimal Care, who allegedly sexually assaulted niece to his wife

 

Emmanuel Thomas l Wednesday, January 4, 2023

 

IKEJA, Lagos, Nigeria – A Domestic Violence and Sexual Offences Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos was today informed about the rituals that Dr Femi Olaleye, MD Optimal Care goes through before sexually assaulting his victim, a sixteen year old niece of his wife.

Dr Akinbunmi Oyebimpe,  a medical and forensic expert at Mirabel Center, Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH), Ikeja,  who was being led in evidence by the Director, Department of Public Prosecution ( DPP) Dr Jide Martins told the court that Femi Olaleye applies lubricant on the virgina of the survivor(names withheld) before penetration.

Dr Olaleye is facing a two count charge of child defilement and penetration before Justice Raheem Oshodi. Dr Oyebimpe who is the fifth prosecution witness further told the court that the defendant would give the survivor some pills to use after the assault to prevent pregnancy.

“She said he usually call her in the night when others are asleep to come downstairs, remove his trousers and asked her to perform oral sex on him and sometimes, he would put his fingers in her virgina and would tell her she would die if she tells anyone.”

Dr Oyebimpe further told the court that during her examination of the survivor, she found “injuries consistent with repeated, forceful entry and blunt penetration of the vagina.

“After the examination, the major findings were in the genital area. The hymen was angular which means ring-shaped and slightly estrogenized. There was a notch at 9 ‘O’ clock position on the hymen and transection at one ‘O’ clock position at the hymen. Transection means a deep cut .

“The vagina wall was also unduly visible, revealing more than one-third of the lower vagina. The pattern of injury that I saw was consistent with repeated forceful penetrative injury into the vagina. It is an indication of ongoing forceful blunt penetration of the vagina.

“In my medical opinion, if there is a repeated penetrative forceful injury on the vagina, it would be the classical features I saw on the vagina and hymen because it has been ongoing”, she stated.

On the timing of the injury, she said the survivor told her the defendant started violating her March 2020 until the time she reported it.

During cross examination by defence counsel, Babatunde Ogala (SAN), the witness contended that the pattern of injury she saw was “consistent with the history she( survivor) gave me of consistent forceful penetration.”

Asked when it would take a virgina injury to heal, the witness said “the healing process differ and based on individual and other factors. If it is fresh, there would be blood. As long as these are not there, it connotes an old injury.”

Dr. Oyebimpe insisted on the “accuracy of her findings as contained in the report based on what the client (survivor) told me during my examination.”  The matter has been adjourned till January 26, 2023.

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