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Baba Ijesha: 14-year-old girl’s private part showed blunt laceration, doctor testifies

A Clinical Director, Women at Risk International Foundation (WARIF), Dr Aniekan Makanjuola, yesterday told an Ikeja Special Offences Court, Lagos that a 14-year old teenager allegedly defiled by Nollywood actor, James Olanrewaju a.k.a Baba Ijesha, showed healed blunt laceration in her pri-vate part. DrMakanjuola, aforensic medicalexaminationexpert, told the court that the survivor showed that she was not sexually active. The doctor, who testified as a prosecution witness, made this statement while being cross examined by the defence Counsel, Dada Awosika, SAN. Baba Ijesha, who is currently on bail, is standing trial on a six-count charge of sexualassaultby penetration, indecent treatment of a child andattemptedsexualassault of a 14-year-old minor, who is the foster daughter of a popular comedienne, DamilolaAdekanyaalsoknownas ‘Princess’. The 48-year-old actor was alleged to have committed the offence sometime between 2013-2014 and on April 19, 2021 around Joseph HarrisonStreetandNo13Wegbo Street, Iyawa, Yaba, Lagos. According to the doctor: “It was a minor laceration that may not necessarily mean blood was gushing out when it happened. “There was a rupture on that part of the vagina but it has healed.”

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