Breaking News: Lagos doctor sentenced to life imprisonment over raping wife’s niece

The Managing Director of Optimal Cancer Care Foundation, Femi Olaleye has been sentenced to life imprisonment for raping his wife’s niece.

The judge, Rahman Oshodi, of the Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court in Lagos found the doctor guilty on Tuesday.

In November 2022, Olaleye was arraigned by the Lagos state government on a two-count charge of defilement of a child and sexual assault by penetration.

The medical doctor, however, pleaded not guilty to the two-count charge.

The cancer care advocate was accused of sexually violating a minor, who was said to be a niece of his wife, for over 20 months.

The prosecution presented at least seven witnesses. However, one was “withdrawn.”

The witnesses include the defendant’s wife, who reported the case to the police, the alleged survivor, (name withheld); a child forensic specialist, Bisi Ajayi-Kayode; police inspector Esther Igbineweka; medical examiner Akinbunmi Oyebimpe and Abe Leonard, a police officer.