Actress and comedienne, Ms Damilola Adekoya alias Princess,
has narrated to an Ikeja Special Offences Court how Nollywood actor, Olanrewaju
James, popularly known as Baba Ijesha, allegedly defiled her foster daughter.
Princess made the revelation on Monday while testifying as
the first prosecution witness in the trial of the defendant over six counts of
defilement.
According to her, the said daughter, (name withheld), was
allegedly defiled while she was watching cartoons.
Led in evidence by Mrs Olayinka Adeyemi, the Lagos State Director of Public Prosecution (DPP), Adekoya said the defendant defiled the minor, seven-years ago while she was watching cartoons in the living room.
Princess told the court that she first met Baba Ijesha in
2008, and that she had been a friend and a benefactor to him ever since.
She explained that in 2013, she had challenges in her marriage
and that she was also battling health challenges, upon which the defendant paid
her a visit to sympathise with her.
“During his visit, she had left her apartment for
approximately seven minutes to see off a visiting relative, leaving Baba Ijesha
with her then a seven-year-old daughter who was watching cartoons
“My daughter told me about what happened seven years later.
She said on that day when I saw my guest off, Baba Ijesha asked her if she was
enjoying her cartoon, and he now told her to come so she can play with her.
” She said when she got to where he was sitting, he asked
her to remove her pant and he removed his trousers.
” At that point, I asked her which Baba Ijesha? She said it
is the same Baba Ijesha, Lanre Omiyinka James.
” She said he asked her to sit on him and start wriggling my
waist. I continued until something like water splashed all over my body and he
told me not to tell my mum, that it is just like play, just like the cartoon.
“She said when he heard the gate closed, he told her to
stand up and go to the bathroom to clean herself and he then used his face
towel to clean up himself,” Princess said.
She also told the court that after the revelations, she
asked her daughter why she did not tell her about what happened and but that she
told her that she did not initially understand what happened.
The witness said that her daughter, however, said she
understood what happened to her only a few years after the incident.
“I help children who have been molested around the Bariga
area and on that, one day I was crying and talking about what had happened to
the child.
“My daughter said when she overheard me, she figured that
that was what had happened to her,” she said.
In her narration, Princess again alleged that Baba Ijesha
molested her daughter the day after the first incident when he came to deliver
some fruits into her house.
“He opened the car and told her that that is the nylon, bend
down and pick it and that when she bent down to pick up the fruits, he inserted
the car keys into her vagina.
“She said immediately, she felt some kind of pain and
jerked, saying, ‘Uncle’ and that he said I’ve told you not to tell your mummy
anything that happened. You’re my friend,” she said.
Her daughter said she did not tell her about the second
incident because of the state of her health and that she had just undergone
surgery.
Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo adjourned the case until July 27
for the continuation of trial.
NAN
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