70-yr-old chief jailed 7yrs for raping 2 teens

A 70 year old chief, Moses Adeniyi, has been sentenced to seven years in prison by an Osun State High Court sitting in Ilesa for raping two teenagers.

This was disclosed in a statement issued by the Information Officer of the Osun State Ministry of Justice, Mr. Opeyemi Bello, in Osogbo on Thursday.

According to the statement, Adeniyi, the Loja, Araromi Otokobo, was arraigned in court on March 28 2011 for rape and indecent assault.

The prosecution team from the Ministry of Justice, Tijani Adekilekun and Folasade Adekomi, had told the court that the convict offered a free ride to the girls, who were returning from school but instead of taking them to their destination, drove them to his hotel where he raped the two teenagers one after the other.

The prosecutors argued that the two offences were contrary to the provisions of Sections 358 and 360 Criminal Code Cap 34 vol.11 Laws of Osun State.

In her ruling, trial judge, Justice Kudirat Akano, held that the prosecution counsels proved beyond reasonable doubt that Adeniyi unlawfully had carnal knowledge of the two girls and thereafter sentenced him to seven years imprisonment.

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The statement further explained that Adeniyi, a former neighbour of the victims, raped the two girls aged 13 and 14 who are pupils of St Margaret Girls School Ilesa in May 2010, warning them not to shout or tell anybody about it.

According to the statement, the septuagenarian thereafter wiped their private parts with a piece of white cloth and threatened whichever one of them disclosed what happened would die.

However, one of the parents of the victims was said to have been told that her daughter was given a free ride by a man and she went to inquire from the school who the man was.

The girls however refused to disclose what happened because of fear of dying. They eventually opened up when their teachers assured them that nothing would happen to them.

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