An Ikeja High Court yesterday heard that a guard, Abass Hamman, alleged to have raped a girl, 7 (names withheld), claimed that it was the devil that pushed him to commit the act.
He allegedly defiled and penetrated his victim through her private part and anus.
A prosecution witness, Eche Happiness, disclosed this while being led in evidence by the prosecutor, Adebayo Haroun before Justice Sedoten Ogunsanya.
Happiness, an Investigating Police Officer (IPO), told the court that each time she asked the defendant why he did it, he would say: “Nah devil cause am”.
Happiness told the court that the victim said the defendant told her to bend down before committing the act.
Earlier, the lead prosecution witness, Dr Alape Oyedeji from Mirabel Centre, Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH), Ikeja, gave a graphic analysis of the report of the medical examination conducted on the victim.
According to him, the focus of the examination was on the virgina.
“From the outer lips, it was normal but going inward inside the lips, it was found to be reddened. Furthermore, at the entrance of the virgina, we found remnants of the hymen which were also reddened. Evidence equally show lacerations that was trying to heal back in the hymen.
“Furthermore, on the floor of the virgina, there was evidence of lacerations also trying to heal back but was also reddened.
“There was also insult to the anus. There were lacerations in three locations, which we called 5 o’clock, 6 o’clock and 7 o’clock in medical terms.”
According to him, the doctors that conducted the examination on the victim “came to the conclusion that their findings was in line with the report of the ‘client’ that what must have done this is a penal penetration”.
He admitted that milky discharge, which could be semen or mucous substance, was found inside the victim, which he ascribed to the insult caused to the virgina and anus of the victim.
He explained that the lacerations and redness of the private part and anus of the victim were result of the viciousness of the penetration.
“If the penetration is gentle, it might be reddened, but if it is vicious and vigorous, it will be lacerations”, he stated.
Justice Ogunsanya has adjourned the matter till December 19.