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| Dr. Femi Olaleye |
A medical and forensic expert at Mirabel Center, Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH), Ikeja, Dr. Akinbunmi Oyebimpe, on Wednesday, January 4, 2023, informed Justice Raheem Oshodi of an Ikeja Domestic Violence and Sexual Offences Court that a Lagos-based medical doctor, Femi Olaleye, sometimes applies lubricant on the private part of the survivor (names withheld) before penetration.
Dr. Oyebimpe stated this while being led in evidence by the Director, Department of Public Prosecution (DPP) Dr. Jide Martins.
It would be recalled that Dr. Olaleye is answering questions to a two-count charge of child defilement and penetration before the judge.
Testifying as the fifth prosecution witness, Dr. Oyebimpe specifically revealed that the defendant would give the survivor some pills to use after the assault to prevent pregnancy.
According to the witness, “She said he usually calls her at night when others are asleep to come downstairs, remove his trousers and ask her to perform oral sex on him, and sometimes, he would put his fingers in her vagina and would tell her she would die if she told anyone.”
Dr. Oyebimpe equally hinted to the judge 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 estrogenised.
“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, the witness revealed that the survivor told her the defendant started violating her in March 2020 until the time she reported it.
While being cross-examined by the lawyer for the defence, 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.”
On when it would take a vagina injury to heal, Dr. Oyebimpe said, “the healing process differs and is 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.”
Justice Oshodi adjourned until January 26, 2023, for the trial to continue.
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