Tag: Rape

Popular Lagos Bishop sent to prison for allegedly raping 2 church members in Lekki

An Ikeja Sexual offences and Domestic Violence Court on Monday remanded a clergyman, Daniel Oluwafeyiropo for allegedly raping two of his church members (names withheld).

Justice Ramon Oshodi remanded the founder of “I Reign Christian Ministry” in Kirikiri Correctional Centre pending the fulfilment of his bail conditions.

Oshodi admitted the defendant to N20 million bail with two sureties in like sum.

He said one of the sureties must be owner of a build up property in Lagos State and the property must be enough to cover the bail sum.

“The original document of the landed property must be submitted the chief registrar of Lagos State.

“The sureties must reside within the court’s jurisdiction and must have three years’ tax payment to the Lagos State,” he said.

The judge also ordered the defendant to deposit his international passport with the chief registrar of the court and ordered acceleration hearing of the case.

Oshodi adjourned the case until May 9 for trial.

Earlier, the defence counsel, Mr Olukunle Oyewole, while moving his bail application dated April 10, urged the court to grant bail to the defendant on liberal terms.

Oyewole argued that the defendant had been on police administrative bail since May 20, 2022 and had made himself available to the police.

“My lord, the defendant was not informed on the day the matter came up for the first time before this court.

“The defendant is a well known religious leader and he has shown by his action that he will not jump bail.

“The offence for which he is charged with is a bailable offences and he has credible sureties that can stand for him,” he said.

The state lead prosecution counsel, Mr Babjide Boye, in his counter affidavit dated April 14, urged the court to refuse the bail application of the defendant, however, left it at the discretion if the court.

Boye, however, argued that the offences was a serious one and the likelihood of conviction might put the defendant on flight risk.

“There is also possibility of the defendant interfering with the prosecution witnesses.

“He is a bishop of so many branches and if granted bail, he may use his position to influence the prosecution witnesses as he is regarded as a man of authority who has the possibility of committing same crime.

“We urge the court to deny the defendant bail because he has failed to provide the court exceptional circumstances to grant him bail,” the prosecutor submitted.

Oluwafeyiropo, was earlier arraigned on a two-count charge bordering on rape.

He, however, pleaded not guilty to the charge.

According to the prosecution, the defendant allegedly committed the offences sometime in June 2020 at Ikota Villa Estate, Lekki, Lagos.

According to the prosecution, the alleged offence contravened Sections 260 (2) of the Criminal Laws of Lagos State, 2015.

April 17, 2023
Police nab 70-year-old man for allegedly raping 2 minors

The Police Command in Adamawa says it has arrested a 70-year-old Man, Usman Ibrahim, for allegedly raping two minors in Yola-North Local Government Area (LGA).

SP Suleiman Nguroje, the Command’s spokesman, disclosed this in a statement on Saturday in Yola.

He said that the survivors were four-and seven-year-olds, both residents of Ajiya street, Jimeta.

According to the statement, the Commissioner of Police, CP Afolabi Babatola, ordered for a thorough and clinical investigation.

“Adamawa state police command, on April 4, apprehended a 70-year-old man for raping two minors at Jimeta, Yola North local government area.

“The suspect is said to have lured the two victims into his room, a close distance from the victims, and took advantage of them while on their way to a lesson class and had unlawful carnal knowledge of them.

“The incident was reported to the Divisional Police Headquarters, Jimeta, by the father of the victims, having observed unusual pains from the kids while urinating,” he stated.

Nguroje further stated that preliminary investigation so far reveals that the suspect is a father of three and now leaving alone after he separated from his wife 10 years ago.

He added that the CP expressed worry over the unfortunate incident, directed the Officer in charge of Family support unit of the State CID to take over investigation and ensure diligent prosecution..

He advised members of the public, particularly parents, to be very watchful of their kids against criminal-minded elements who are roaming about seeking whom to take advantage of and report suspicious characters to the Police.

He equally called on the General public, especially parents to key into the Command’s Fight against all forms of Gender-Based Violence and promised to prosecute perpetrators in accordance with the extant laws.

April 8, 2023
Abuja Police arrest man for defiling neighbour’s 10-year-old daughter

A 48-year-old man, Adekola Adeshina, is currently in the custody of the Federal Capital Territory Police Command for allegedly defiling a 10-year-old girl.

The command’s spokesperson, SP Josephine Adeh, disclosed this in a press statement made available to journalists in Abuja on Sunday.

Adeh said the suspect was arrested based on a complaint lodged by the victim’s mother.

The statement read, “Operatives of the FCT Police Command attached to the Apo Divisional Police Headquarters, at about 10.15am on March 22, 2023, received a complaint from a woman (name withheld) living close to Prince and Princess Estate.

“She complained that she was suspecting her neighbour, Adekola Adeshina, a 48-year-old male, of sexually engaging her 10-year-old daughter (name also withheld).

“The suspect, shortly after being arrested and interrogated, voluntarily elected in a written statement to have carried out the dastardly act severally.”

Adeh added that the 10-year-old victim is still undergoing medical examination, while the suspect remains in police custody and will be dragged to court upon the conclusion of the investigation.

She quoted the Commissioner of Police, FCT Command, Sadiq Abubakar, as calling on parents and guardians to pay attention to changes in the behavioural pattern of their wards around individuals and ensure that measures are put in place to shield them against sexual crimes.

March 27, 2023
Gombe teacher arrested over alleged defilement of 4 pupils

A 38-year-old teacher has been arrested in Gombe state for allegedly defiling four pupils.

The pupils who are aged eight, nine, 12 and 14 years respectively are sisters from the same father.

The state police spokesperson, ASP Mahid Abubakar, told journalists that the suspect was arrested for sexual assault.

He was arrested on March 7 at about 11am following complaints from the pupils’ father, Adamu Ali who reported that the sexual assault was committed between January and March.

The statement read: “The suspect who resides in Malam-inna quarters, Gombe committed the offence at the Islamiyya school located in the same community. The victims were taken to the hospital for medical examination.”

Ali said the suspect has confessed to the crime and would soon be charged to court for prosecution.

In a similar development, the Ondo State Police Command has arrested a 45-year-old man, Ojo Akerele, in the Idoani community, the Ose Local Government Area of the state, for allegedly defiling a 10-year-old girl.

The state Police Public Relations Officer, Funmi Odunlami, disclosed this in an interview with journalists in Akure, the state capital on Tuesday.

She said, “A case of defilement was reported against one Ojo Akerele, 45, and he was subsequently arrested by security operatives.

“The victim,10, was lured to an uncompleted building by the suspect where he had carnal knowledge of her after giving her N100. The suspect claimed that the girl usually comes with her friend to collect N100 from him daily and that while she was asking for the money he drew her closer and had carnal knowledge of her.”

March 15, 2023
Prophet to serve 21yrs jail term for raping his daughter in Akwa Ibom

The Akwa Ibom State High Court sitting in Okoita, Ibiono Ibom local government, has sentenced a Prophet, Anwana Peter Essien, to 21 years in prison for allegedly raping his 10 year-old step daughter.

The 37 year-old prophet was said to have raped his Junior Secondary School one step daughter on August 9, 2019.

He reportedly had carnal knowledge of the victim when she stayed in his house at Itiam Street, Uyo, during the holiday.

The convict, an indigene of Afaha Ise in Ibiono Ibom, had confessed during his evidence that a demon ‘pushed’ him in the midnight to forcefully undress the victim and have intercourse with her.

Essien said, “I know the victim of this case. She is my wife’s daughter. In the month of August, 2019, she came to my house at Itiam Street, Uyo. I gave her food and she ate then after eating, I told her to remove her clothes but she refused.

“I forced her and removed her clothes. I was the one that used my hand and removed my penis and forcefully inserted into her vagina and had carnal knowledge of her. When I was having sex with her, I did not use any condom”.

In his judgement, Presiding Judge, Justice Okon Okon held that the confession was, “direct, positive and unequivocal that the randy stepfather had sexual intercourse with his step daughter.

“The parameters established for the proof of rape, have all been satisfied by the evidence of the prosecution witnesses, including the victim and the medical doctor who examined her, fortified by the confessional statement voluntarily made by the accused person himself.

“It is most despicable and depressing, that the supposed man of God overpowered and defiled an innocent child of about ten years who is incidentally, his own step daughter.

“The defendant lacks any claim of moral rectitude having thrown over board, the limits of his liberties by shamelessly stripping and polluting the dignity, chastity and sanctity of his step daughter’s body and totally disregarding her under age status”.

Justice Okon found Anwana Essien guilty as charged and accordingly convicted him, adding that the 21 years imprisonment is with effect from when the convict was taken into custody in the Custodial Centre, Uyo.

The convict however begged the court to release him, as he has a son that has nobody to take care of him.

March 2, 2023
How man allegedly raped 20-year-old in uncompleted building

A medical doctor, Mrs. Aniekan Makanjuola, on Thursday told an Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence and Sexual Court how a man, Idowu Omashegbe, allegedly raped a 20-year-old woman in an uncompleted building.

Makanjuola, a staff of Women at Risk International Foundation, (WARIF), said the survivor (name withheld) presented herself at the centre on March 16, 2020, for medical examination.

She said the survivor gave a history 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, Ms. Inumidun Solarin.

According to her, “The survivor said eight days before she came to WARIF, she and her friends were returning from an outing when she overheard some boys shouting ‘thief’ and they hid in a house.

“She said after the boys left, they came out but unknown to them, another group of armed boys accosted them and collected their phones.

“The survivor 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 further told the court that the survivor told her that two of the boys that earlier raped her, again, allegedly 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 survivor 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 said.

According to the witness, the medical examination conducted on the survivor showed blunt penetration of vagina which was consistent with the survivor’s history.

While under cross-examination, the witness said the survivor did not mention the names of the boys and her medical examination was based on what she saw.

Justice Ramon Oshodi adjourned the case until May 5 for the continuation of trial.

February 9, 2023
Attempted rape charges against Mason Greenwood dropped

Charges of attempted rape and assault have been dropped against Manchester United footballer Mason Greenwood.

The 21-year-old was arrested in January 2022 amid allegations surrounding images and videos.

He was later charged with attempted rape, controlling and coercive behaviour, and assault occasioning actual bodily harm.

The Crown Prosecution Service said the charges were discontinued after key witnesses withdrew their involvement.

A spokesman said: “We have a duty to keep cases under continuous review.

“In this case a combination of the withdrawal of key witnesses and new material that came to light meant there was no longer a realistic prospect of conviction. In these circumstances, we are under a duty to stop the case.

“We have explained our decision to all parties.

“We would always encourage any potential victims to come forward and report to police and we will prosecute wherever our legal test is met.”

Within hours of the allegations surfacing at the beginning of 2022, the forward, who has made one appearance for England, was suspended from playing or training with the Old Trafford club.

In a statement, a Manchester United representative said the club noted “the decision of the Crown Prosecution Service that all charges against Mason Greenwood have been dropped”.

“The club will now conduct its own process before determining next steps,” they said.

“We will not make any further comment until that process is complete.”

Greater Manchester Police said it was “only fair” to announce Greenwood would no longer face criminal proceedings.

Ch Supt Michaela Kerr said the decision had “not been taken lightly”.

She added: “I would, however, like to use this opportunity to reiterate the force’s commitment to investigating allegations of violence against women and girls and supporting those affected, regardless of their circumstances, throughout what can be a hard and upsetting time for them.”

BBC

February 2, 2023
SERIAL RAPIST: Met Police officer, David Carrick pleads guilty to 49 sex crimes (VIDEO)

A Metropolitan Police officer, David Carrick, has pleaded guilty to 49 charges of sex crimes and is facing life in prison after admitting a horrific campaign of rape and abuse against women throughout his policing career.

The 48-year-old officer (Carrick) agreed to have carried out physical and emotional abuse over the course of his 18 years while wielding his status as a police officer to ensure they stayed silent, the Metropolitan police have revealed.

The armed officer, who help to guard politicians and VIPs for more than a decade as a trusted member of the Met’s Parliamentary and Diplomatic Protection Command, forced different women into humiliating and degrading sexual acts, whipped one with a belt, and kept some locked for hours inside a tiny cupboard.

Scotland Yard is being criticized heavily for the crisis after it emerged a string of opportunities to reveal his true character were missed.

Admits urinating on women, forcing them to clean his house naked and raping them on at least 48 different occasions

Carrick, known to colleagues as “Bastard Dave”, was finally caught in October 2021 when a woman came forward to accuse the officer of raping her in a hotel room at the end of a Tinder date.

TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports that following his arrest, 12 more women came forward to reveal Carrick’s catalogue of physical and sexual abuse dating back to 2003, in the infancy of his career in the Met.

Carrick has now pleaded guilty to 49 charges, confirming his status as one of Britain’s worst-ever serial rapists.

He has admitted raping women on at least 48 different occasions between 2003 and 2020.It can now be revealed that Carrick came to police attention as a suspect nine times between 2000 and 2020, for allegations including harassment of former girlfriends and assaulting women.

Despite the crime, he was never arrested or charged, he successfully passed two rounds of vetting, and a series of opportunities to investigate Carrick’s position in the force were missed.

He thrived on humiliating his victims and cleverly used his professional position to intimate there was no point in them trying to seek help because they would never be believed

“On behalf of the Metropolitan Police, I want to apologise to the women who have suffered at the hands of David Carrick,” said Assistant Commissioner Barbara Gray.

“We should have spotted his pattern of abusive behaviour and because we didn’t, we missed opportunities to remove him from the organisation.

“We are truly sorry that being able to continue to use his role as a police officer may have prolonged the suffering of his victims.”

Colleagues said Carrick’s nickname was not linked to sexual offending, but based on his reputation for “mean” and “cruel” behaviour.

He used online dating sites like Badoo and Tinder to target women, and came across initially as “fun-loving, charming, and charismatic”, investigators said.

This is one of the most shocking cases the Crown Prosecution Service has dealt with involving a serving police officer

One woman revealed how Carrick flashed his warrant card when they first met for a date, he boasted about protecting then-Prime Minister Boris Johnson, and openly called himself a “dominant bastard”.

“He introduced himself as a police officer and said ‘you are safe with me’,” said senior CPS prosecutor Shilpa Shah.

“Most victims said they feared they would not be believed because he was a police officer.” She added: “He was very manipulative, self-confident almost to the point of being cocky, and he knew what he was doing.”

In harrowing accounts of the abuse they suffered, women revealed how Carrick had urinated on them, forced them to clean his house naked, controlled their eating habits, and locked them in a cupboard beneath the stairs which was a little bigger than a dog crate.

“It is unbelievable to think these offences could have been committed by a serving police officer” said Detective Chief Inspector Iain Moor, who led the investigation by the Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire Major Crime Unit.

Adding: “He thrived on humiliating his victims and cleverly used his professional position to intimate there was no point in them trying to seek help because they would never be believed.”

Speaking on the steps of Southwark Crown Court, Chief Crown Prosecutor, Jaswant Narwal, said: “This is one of the most shocking cases the Crown Prosecution Service has dealt with involving a serving police officer.

“Anyone hearing of the 49 counts David Carrick had pleaded guilty to against 12 victims would agree the sheer magnitude of his offending is horrfying. Today the victims who suffered at the hands of David Carrick have finally seen justice.

“It is their courage in standing up against this heinously abusive man – a police officer – that has helped to secure his conviction.”

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January 16, 2023
Manchester City footballer, Benjamin Mendy acquitted of six counts of rape charges

Manchester City footballer, Benjamin Mendy, on Friday, was found not guilty of raping four women and sexually assaulting another during lockdown parties at his Cheshire mansion.

The former French international slumped with his head in his hands as he was unanimously cleared of six counts of rape and one of sexual assault after a five-month trial at Chester crown court.

However, the 28-year-old will face a second trial after the jury was unable to reach verdicts on a charge of raping one woman and attempting to rape another.

Mendy, who appeared close to tears in the court dock, had told his trial that the women who accused him of rape had all wanted to have sex with him. He denied groping the woman who claimed he had sexually assaulted her in his kitchen.

He had been accused of seven counts of rape against four women, one count of attempted rape against a fifth woman and a further charge of sexual assault against a sixth woman after being arrested on 11 November 2020.

The jury was discharged on Friday after deliberating for more than 60 hours over 14 days.

Mendy’s co-defendant, Louis Saha Matturie, who had been described as Mendy’s “fixer”, broke down in tears as he was found not guilty of three charges of rape involving two women.

The jury was unable to reach verdicts on six other counts against the 41-year-old, four alleged rapes against three women and the alleged sexual assault of two women.

Mendy told his trial it was “normal” for him to sleep with lots of different women, sometimes on the same night as they had had sex with his friends.

Being a famous footballer made it “honestly, so easy” to pick up women at nightclubs and take them to his home near the Cheshire village of Prestbury, he said.

TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports that six women had accused him of assaulting them at his £4.8m gated mansion between October 2018 and August 2021, often at illegal parties held during Covid lockdowns.

The parties were fuelled by alcohol and nitrous oxide balloons and often involved guests stripping down in Mendy’s pool. People would have sex in rooms all over the house, sometimes swapping partners.

One woman was only 17 when she claimed she was raped on the same night by Mendy and his “fixer”, Matturie, known as Saha. The men were cleared of four counts of rape relating to her.

The prosecution said it was Matturie’s job to “procure” attractive young women for Mendy and to bring them back to his home, called The Spinney.

Several weeks into the trial, the judge ordered the jury to find both Mendy and Matturie not guilty of raping a 19-year-old woman, after a video emerged showing her having “enthusiastic and obviously consensual sex” with Matturie.

Mendy’s defence team used this dropped charge to plant doubt in the jury’s mind, suggesting that if one woman had lied, could the others not also have made up their allegations?

“What you have actually seen with your own eyes in this case is – I hesitate to use the word – a real-life liar,” said Eleanor Laws KC in her closing speech to the jury.

“Someone who has made serious criminal allegations against two men. And you have watched it play out, unusually, in front of your eyes. Because when ever does a defendant have a film to prove their innocence? Hardly ever.”

Giving evidence in court, Mendy said that being in prison while on remand had made him “learn lots of things about life”. He said that he reflected on his behaviour while sitting in his cell, and realised only then that it was possible to “hurt” women’s feelings even “if we were both OK to have sex”. The way he had sometimes spoken about women was “disrespectful”, he realised.

A statement from Mendy’s club said: “Manchester City FC notes the verdict from Chester crown court today where a jury has found Benjamin Mendy not guilty of seven charges.

“The jury is hung on two charges and the trial is now over.

“Given there are open matters related to this case, the club is not in a position to comment further at this time.”

January 13, 2023
Teacher narrates how neighbour raped her 2-year-old girl in Lagos

A teacher on Tuesday, January 10, told an Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court how her neighbour, Jubril Zakari, allegedly defiled her 2-year-old daughter.

The mother of three, a resident of Ojo in Lagos, said she met the defendant naked in his room with his penis erected while her child was also naked on the bed with blood dripping from her vagina.

She was led in evidence by Lagos State counsel, Inumidun Solaarin.

According to the mother, one of her neighbours told her of the whereabouts of the child after she (neighbour) heard her crying in the compound.

“The survivor is my daughter and she is three years old but was two years old at the time the incident happened,” she narrated.

I saw my baby crying on the bed with blood in her private part and met the defendant also naked when I finally opened the door

“I was inside the room with my children watching a movie when power outage occurred. The children told me they wanted to go out, and I allowed them in order to put the house in order.

“It was not up to 10 minutes when one of my neighbours asked if my my little baby was with me in the room, and I said, ‘No’.

“My neighbour told me she heard the cry of my baby, and I ran outside and started knocking on the door of the defendant which was locked.

“I saw my baby crying on the bed with blood in her private part and met the defendant also naked when I finally opened the door.”

The witness further told the court that the defendant wanted to escape by pulling his window burglary, following her outcry to alert passersby.

She added that some youths in the neighbourhood assisted in apprehending the defendant.

“He was taken to the police station in Ojo Barracks, where I wrote a statement after he was caught, and I was told to take my girl to Mirabel Centre for medical examination,” the witness said.

TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports that the defence counsel, Samuel Okani, urged the court for an adjournment to enable him to tidy up somethings but Justice Ramon Oshodi overruled his plea.

The judge ruled that defence had more than three months to prepare itself. The witness, under cross-examination, said the alleged incident happened about 3. 00 p.m.

According to her, she allowed her children outside because they usually played in front of the house.

She added that her husband was at home the day the alleged incident happened.

“My husband heard when I was shouting and he came around. There was no fight between my husband and the defendant though the defendant’s mother came to me for settlement but I said, ‘No’ because I want Justice for my baby,” the witness said.

Another witness, the investigative police officer, Inspector Abosede Badmus, attached to Gender Section, Lagos State Police Command, testified that she received a case from Onireke Police Division on December 29, 2021.

The court conducted trial within trial after defence objected the prosecution tendering the statement of the defendant.

Defence argued that the defendant was not the maker of the statement, adding that he was forced to sign the statement.

The IPO, in trial within trial, told the court that she was with her team leader in the charge room when the statement was obtained from the defendant.

She added that the defendant told her he could not write, saying that his lawyer or relative was not present when the defendant signed the statement.

While being examined in the trial within trial, the defendant said he was locked up for four days, adding that he told the IPO that he could not make any statement because he was not himself.

The defendant maintained that what he signed was not his statement.

While under cross-examination by prosecution, the defendant said he was a trailer repairer and had not seen the IPO prior to his arrest.

The case was adjourned till February 7, 2023, for continuation of trial and ruling on the trial within trial.

January 11, 2023