Osun Cobbler Bags Life Imprisonment For Raping 7-Year-Old

An Osun State High Court has sentenced a 29-year-old cobbler, Tunde Olapade to life imprisonment for raping a 7-year-old girl in Osogbo, Osun State.

The convict was charged with three counts of rape, indecent assault and defilement contrary to sections 358, 360 and 218 of criminal code law, Cap.34, volume 11 Laws of Osun State, 2002 before Osun State High Court sitting in Osogbo.

The prosecuting counsel from the Ministry of Justice, Mosunmola Ogunkola, had told the court that Olapade had on October 5, 2012 raped the 7-year-old girl(name withheld)

Ogunkola narrated further that the convict committed the crime around Oluode area of Osogbo after he took the girl to a private toilet from her mother’s house where she was playing.

“On 6th October 2012, her mother, Mrs Sadiat Adejumo, asked her daughter why she couldn’t sit very well while performing her ablution, and the daughter expressed her ordeal to her mother, with the hazardous attitude of Tunde Olapade. “

The prosecutor invited a medical expert, consultant gynecologist, Dr Femi Ala, from the UNIOSUN Teaching Hospital and he told the court that there was a prolapse and the protrusion of the urethra wall content of the body which was supposed to be within.

While delivering the judgement on Thursday, Justice J. Ayoola, held that the prosecution was able to prove his case beyond reasonable doubt.

The court found Olapade guilty of the three counts preferred against him and he subsequently sentenced him to life imprisonment.