A
45-year-old commercial driver, Lawrence Adedapo, was yesterday sentenced to
seven years imprisonment by an Ado-Ekiti high court for raping an 80-year-old
woman, Madam Grace Asaolu. Justice Dele Omotoso, who hinged his judgment on the
evidence before the court, which showed that the driver raped the old woman and
was guilty as charged.
The convict sexually assaulted the
octogenarian on November 7, 2013 at Oke Erimope Street, Ogbese, Ise-Ekiti, and
was subsequently charged to court.
Adedapo,
who pleaded not guilty to the charge, described the old woman as his “mother as
well as his concubine,” whom he has been dating as far back as his bachelor
years and claimed that Mrs. Asaolu framed him up.
He claimed that the old woman had earlier
approached him for a sum of money to travel to her village. The driver claimed
that the old woman started caressing him, which eventually led to love-making,
after which he had given her N1, 000.
The
prosecution, led by the Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Owoseni
Ajayi, gave evidence that the convict confessed to have been dating the woman
before the incident and that she consen-ted to the sexual intercourse. Ajayi
tendered the blood-stained clothes of the victim, which was recovered from the
scene of the incident.
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