A medical doctor, Mrs Aniekan Makanjuola, on Thursday, has told an Ikeja sexual offences and domestic violence court how a man, Idowu Omashegbe, raped a 20-year-old woman.
Mrs Makanjuola, a staff of Women at Risk International Foundation (WARIF), said the survivor (name withheld) presented herself at the centre on March 16, 2020, for medical examination.
She said the survivor narrated how the defendant and others still at large dragged her into an uncompleted building, robbed her of her phone and forcefully had sexual intercourse with her.
She said, “The survivor said eight days before she came to WARIF, she and her friends were returning from an outing when she overheard some boys shouting ‘thief’ and that they hid in a house.
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“She said after the boys left, they came out, but unknown to them, another group of armed boys accosted them and collected their phones.
“The survivor said the boys also collected a phone from her belonging to another person and that she begged them to return the phone but the boys insisted she must follow them before they would give her the phone.
“She said when they got to a location, the boys told her they would only give her the phone if they had sex with her and that out of fear she agreed and each of the boys took turns to have sex with her.
“The survivor said she was able to come out of the building and met some officers whom she reported the incident to, and they followed her back to the building where one of the boys was apprehended.”
According to the witness, the medical examination conducted on the survivor showed blunt penetration of her vagina.
While under cross-examination, the witness said the survivor did not mention the names of the boys.
Justice Ramon Oshodi adjourned the case to May 5. (NAN)
