Akure District Court has ordered remands Ademola Adepetu, a 35-year-old married man at the Olokuta Correctional Center, allegedly R3 is allegedly in his girlfriend’s 12-year-old daughter (named).
Commercial motorcycle rider Adepetu was arraigned in court for a counting charge of illegal S3xual interactions.
The victim said in court while narrating her ordeal that the defendant locked her in the room and then put her on.
She told the court that he had raped her four times before he was eventually arrested.
The victim explained her background that her father abandoned her and two young siblings aged 7 and 3, while their mother went to Libya to search for green ranches two years ago.
“Before the trip, my mother rented us a single room apartment and asked us to take care of her sister, and later quit and never came back.”
The victim blamed her parents’ negligence for her traumatic experience and noted that the defendant used their abandonment and attracted her with a promise to sponsor her education, but simply attacked her.
When arraigned, Adepetu pleaded guilty, but insisted that when he was only 15 years old, claiming that a 15-year-old was old enough to “know a man.”
Shockingly, he also told the court that he married his first wife before he was 12 years old.
Prosecutor Martins Olowofeso earlier told the court that the crime was committed in Ondo Town.
He said the victim’s mother was the defendant’s girlfriend and then enjoyed the 10, 5 and 3 year olds after renting a house for her three children.
Olowofeso revealed that according to the investigation, the defendant’s first wife also went to Libya. After settling down, she asked her husband to find someone interested in joining her.
It was then that the mother of the victim who had a relationship with the defendant traveled voluntarily.
“After the child’s mother left for Libya, rent for an apartment expired.
“The defendant then offered to accommodate the children, during which time he began to abuse the girls,” the prosecutor added.
He prayed that the court’s defendant at the Olokuta Correctional Center would return the defendant to the court’s advice from the Public Prosecution (DPP).
In the ruling, Magistrate Justice Grace Alphonso ordered the arrest of Adepetu back to Olokuta prison in order to be the DPP’s advice.
She also directed that the three abandoned children of the mother were detained at Dorian’s home along Dorian on Idanre Road in Akure for protection and consultation.
The court ordered that mothers of children currently abroad and expected to return from Libya were denied access upon arrival.
The case was adjourned until July 24, 2025 for further hearings.
The victim blamed her traumatic experience on her parents’ negligence, noting that the defendant used their abandonment and attracted her with a promise to sponsor her education, but simply for sexual assault.
