Justice Abiola Soladoye held that the prosecution had proved beyond reasonable doubt the three-count charge bordering on s3xual assault by penetration against the defendant.

bruises from the s3xual assault perpetrated by their biological father.

“This corroborates the statement of the victims at the police station and the evidence given by the second prosecution witness (PW2), an officer from a child advocacy agency that the brother of the victims, told him that he once saw his father, fingering his sister.”

Soladoye thereby convicted the defendant of the three-count charge and subsequently sentenced him to life imprisonment on each of the counts.

She, however, held that the sentencing should run concurrently.

The judge also ordered that the convict should have his name registered in the sexual offences register as maintained by Lagos State.

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