How housewife allegedly forced teenager to sleep with husband, bear children – Witness

In a disturbing case before the Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court, Investigating Police Officer Elizabeth Osikolu testified about a housewife, Omolara Alashe, who allegedly forced a 19-year-old girl (name withheld) to have sexual relations with her husband, Ramoni Lateef, in hopes of bearing children.

Testifying as the second prosecution witness, Osikolu recounted the details to Justice Rahman Oshodi.

The couple, Alashe and Lateef, are facing serious charges brought by the Lagos State Government, including conspiracy, rape, sexual assault, and theft.

According to Osikolu’s testimony, the incident took place in 2022 at the couple’s residence in Ketu, where they had relocated after selling their former home in Ojota.

The witness explained that the young woman’s mother had passed away while they lived in Ojota, and the couple then offered to take her in.

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The IPO said that while living with them, the survivor said the couple “always abused her physically whenever she made mistakes.”

She said at other times, “The first defendant would also wake her up at midnight and stripe her naked and the second defendant would have sexual intercourse with her without her consent.

“The first defendant (Omolara) wakes her up in the middle of the night, strips her naked while her husband sleeps with her (survivor).”

She said they were in the sitting room one day “when the first defendant suddenly started beating her up, stripped her naked and inserted her fingers in her vagina without her consent.

“After she was done, she threw out her belongings and seized her ATM card and MTN line and the salary she was making at the time to deny her access to her money”, adding that the last incident was on March 24, 2023.

The IPO further told the court that her investigation also revealed that the couple had a baby who died in October 2022.

She said since then, the first defendant had not been able to conceive again.

“So, they decided that instead of the second defendant getting married again, they would use the survivor to bear children for him.”

Under cross-examination by the defence counsel, Lekan Egberongbe, the IPO maintained that the survivor was not lying adding that the first defendant admitted it in her statement.

She told the court that if the survivor consented to the sexual assault, she would not have reported to the Domestic and Sexual Violence Agency, nor submitted herself to medical examination at Mirabel Centre.

The witness insisted that the survivor couldn’t resist the second defendant because she was intimidated by the first defendant.

However, after listening to the testimony of the IPO, Justice Oshodi adjourned the case to February 3, 2025, for continuation of trial.

(Punch)