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My husband suffered from sex addiction, drugged me every night before ‘raping’ my teenage niece, Dr Olaleye’s wife tells court
The wife of disgraced Lagos medical doctor accused of rape has told the court how he gave her sleeping pills in the night to be free to rape her niece.
Aderemi Faleye, on Monday, spoke before the Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court in Ikeja, Lagos State.
Her husband, Femi Olaleye, is facing a two-count charge of defilement and sexual assault by penetration of his wife’s niece when she was 16 years old.
Her niece, the alleged rape victim, turned 18 years old in March.
The accused, a cancer advocate, was arraigned by the Lagos State government in November.
The doctor pleaded not guilty to the charge preferred against him. He was granted bail but has yet to fulfil the conditions.
The witness and the defendant have been married for 11 years. They have two children together – a 10-year-old and a seven-year-old.
Mrs Olaleye, a real estate entrepreneur, told the court that her husband gave her “junior aspirin” and Phenergan every night.
“My lord, Femi, most nights, gives me a small tablet,” she said.
“When I looked at this incident, I wept. How was this incident going on in my home and I did not know?
“Femi gives me medication every night and he claims that it is junior aspirin that will avert blood clots because I’m turning 50 years old soon.
“My lord, maybe a medical examination should be conducted on me. I want to believe that I slept my way through all his atrocities.
“Sometimes, he also gives me Phenergan, he will say I work so hard that Phenergan will help me relax my nerves.”
The niece (name withheld) came to live with the family in December 2019, when she was 15 years old after her guardian, who was also Mrs Olaleye’s mother, died.
According to the witness, her husband raped her niece from March 2020 to November 2021 at their Maryland residence in Lagos.
“Femi has been sexually abusing her, He introduced her to pornography…and graduated to oral sex,” she said.
She also explained how during oral sex, he “released in her mouth.”
She further said that after she must have slept, he goes out of their bedroom around 2 a.m. to rape the girl, “almost on a daily basis,” in areas where the cameras do not cover.
Mrs Olaleye said her niece confessed to her aunt that he had anal sex with her in his study and threatened her that if she revealed it to anyone, he would kill her, his wife and the children.
While responding to questions from a state lawyer, Babatunde Martins, Mrs Faleye said the matter came to the fore when her children’s nanny reported to her that her niece had been rude.
“When I called her, she gave a long hiss. I disciplined her and told her to be respectful and peaceful,” she said.
When my husband came back from work, and his children told him what transpired, “he went into her room to pacify her.
“I told him that we ought to bring her up together. Instead, he yelled at me and said that the worst thing that I could say was that he was sleeping with her.”
She told the court that Mr Olaleye took the survivor to her aunt’s house.
“At my aunt’s house, my aunt told him that what happened was not enough to bring the victim to her house,” she added.
“After he left the victim in my aunt’s house, my aunt, who is a retired school principal and psychologist, asked the victim what happened and she confessed to her.
“My aunt called and told me what happened and she said I should not tell Femi about it so that he won’t hurt me.”
The mother of two said when her niece confessed in her presence, she immediately went to Anthony police division to report the matter.
Days later, he was arrested, she said.
The entrepreneur told the court that after her husband’s arrest, the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) called her.
During the meeting with the DPO and his lawyer, “he broke down in tears and confessed that he had …sex” while being visually recorded by the police.
She said he signed an undertaking to stay away from her and the children, saying ” I don’t want him around my children, and home.
“I told his lawyer that if he could sleep with my niece that calls him daddy, he could sleep with our daughter.”
She told the court that after signing an undertaking, he sent apologetic WhatsApp messages and emails “that it was the work of the devil.”
She explained to the court that in December 2021, her husband checked into Grace Cottage Clinic, a rehabilitation centre in the Ilupeju area of the state.
She said the psychologist, one Ogunnubi, called her that her husband is suffering from sex addiction.
She told the court that the psychologist told her that if he isn’t “properly taken care of, my own child can be a victim.”
Amidst tears, she said when one Inspector Esther came to their residence for an on-site investigation, her daughter told her (the inspector) that she had seen her father undress her niece.
Why I reported my husband
When asked why she reported her husband to the police, she described what he did as evil.
“I was raised to be a strong and confident woman,” she told the court.
“…I have a girl child…if this evil is not stopped, it will continue.”
Another witness
Shortly after Mrs Olaleye’s testimony, the family driver, Waheed Yusuf, was called to testify as the second witness.
Earlier in her testimony, Mrs Olaleye said that her driver once saw her niece vomiting sperm in their compound.
Mr Yusuf was called to the witness box but was later disqualified because he was in court when Mrs Olaleye spoke.
During court proceedings, other witnesses in the matter are usually asked to leave so that their testimonies will be independent of one another.
Olubunmi Abodunde, the 48-year-old Nigerian man who murdered his wife, Taiwo, with a skateboard and blamed his loss of control on medication has been sentenced to life imprisonment in the United Kingdom.
The incident occurred in their Newmarket home, resulting in Taiwo’s death from catastrophic brain injuries in November 2023.
He, however, admitted to killing Taiwo, who suffered “catastrophic brain injuries”, the BBC reports.
The Ipswich Crown Court noted the intensity of the attack that led to her death at their Exning Road residence.
Abodunde faces a minimum of 17 years in prison before being considered for parole.
The court learned that the day before Taiwo’s death, there was a domestic incident resulting in Abodunde’s arrest.
He was under bail conditions prohibiting contact with his spouse.
The next morning, despite these conditions, Abodunde went to the family home to retrieve a mobile phone.
Taiwo, a mother of three, was returning home from her overnight shift as a health care assistant.
Prosecutor Stephen Spence KC told the court that Abodunde was aware of his wife’s shift pattern and CCTV showed she had arrived back at about 09:12.
The court was informed that two officers had attended the property at about 09:20 to speak with Mrs Abodunde about the previous day’s domestic incident.
Spence stated, “Only the defendant now knows what happened. The officers repeatedly knocked on the door and notified them of their presence but got no response or heard any calls for help.”
However, between 40 and 50 “thuds” were heard and it was believed to be Abodunde attacking his wife.
Officers were given clearance by senior police officials to enter the property at 09:45, the court was told.
Spe4nce added, “When they entered the front door, they immediately found the lifeless body of Mrs Abodunde with her skull smashed in.”
Meanwhile, a postmortem examination revealed that Taiwo had suffered “catastrophic brain injuries”.
Olubunmi-Abodunde and his-late wifeTaiwo
She also had injuries that were consistent with her body being “stamped on” as well as being hit with a skateboard.
This was found at the property covered in blood and fragments of skull.
The court was told the victim had also been strangled.
Meanwhile, the defendant could be heard sobbing from the dock as Spence addressed the court.
Police forced their way into the home after hearing bangs.
“It seems to me that he was waiting for confrontation. There is no debate that there was not going to be confrontation in my view,” he stated.
Akudolu said Abodunde “was a very well-respected man” both here in the UK and in Nigeria where the couple had previously moved from.
He had been a local councillor in Nigeria and had a local street in the country named after him.
The court heard the couple had a “history of frequent disputes over bills and money” with some “low-level violence” involved.
Akudolu told the court that “not a day will go by that [Abodunde] does not regret the misery” that he has caused.
In his ruling, Judge Levett described Taiwo’s killing as “ruthless, violent, savage and heartless”.
The couple’s home
Levett said Abodunde had lied to officers telling them his wife had attempted to attack him with a knife the day before he murdered her, adding that Abodunde also claimed she had tried to beat him, but no evidence was found to substantiate this, the court was told.
While Levett spoke, Abodunde could be seen from the dock with his head in his hands while sobbing.
The Judge added that there had been “no self-defence at all” on Abodunde’s part, saying he had heard “no remorse other than sobs from the dock”.
Following the murder, Suffolk Police referred itself to the Independent Office for Police Conduct due to previous contact with the couple.
It said earlier this month, two officers were advised they were being investigated for gross misconduct over potential breaches of the standards of professional behaviour.
Another officer is under investigation for breaches amounting to misconduct.
An IOPC spokesman said, “This does not mean disciplinary proceedings will necessarily follow. Our investigation remains ongoing.” With BBC reports.
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