An Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court heard yesterday how a grandfather, Babatunde Idris, allegedly defiled his 13-year-old granddaughter.
The survivor is the daughter of the defendant’s daughter.
A Senior Nursing Officer and a registered nurse at Women At Risk International Foundation (WARIF), Olushi Okoi, disclosed this while giving evidence before Justice Rahman Oshodi.
The nursing officer, who was representing the Clinical Head/Centre Manager at WARIF, Dr Aniekan, gave Justice Oshodi the details of the clinical examination carried out on the 13-year-old survivor by interpreting the medical record of examination by Dr. Aneakan on the survivor.
According to her, the survivor was 13 years old when the case was filed.
“The survivor was presented at the centre on the 11th of May 2018 by her parents. They said that she was defiled from the age of three years till 13 years.”
She told the court that the survivor’s parents mentioned that her maternal grandfather had been defiling her since she was three years old.
She said the survivor said that on one of the occasions, her grandfather gave her tea to drink and when she took it, she became unconscious.
She said the moment she woke up, she saw her grandfather forcibly having sexual intercourse with her.
She said after the case was filed to the WARIF centre, a general examination was conducted on the survivor.
She said during examination, “Vaginal discharge was noticed; the hymen, a cover for the vaginal, was not intact. The cervical membrane is usually intact until it is tampered with.’
Giving details of conclusion of medical examination, she said: “Findings for genital examination, most of them are consistent with the penetration of vagina.”