A steward, Happiness Sunday, was on Thursday convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for sexually assaulting his employer’s children, who are aged 10 and eight.
Justice Abiola Soladoye handed down the life sentence to Sunday, who had served as both steward and gateman with the family of the victims.
The judge sentenced him to life imprisonment on each of the three counts which bordered on defilement and sexual assault by penetration.
Soladoye held that the prosecution was able to prove the charges against the convict.
She further held that the ingredients of defilement and sexual assault by penetration were thoroughly satisfied under Sections 137 and 261 of the Criminal Law of the Lagos State.
According to her, the convict was a bisexual houseboy who was desperate and wicked.
She said, “The defendant is a sexual terrorist who ravished children.
“He is a disloyal worker, egoistic, a terrible person whose sexual perversion is unacceptable.
“His actions are beastly and should be locked away for life because his conduct is utterly disgraceful.”
The court also urged parents to be watchful and the care for children should never be taken lightly.
Soladoye thereafter sentenced the convict to life imprisonment on each of the three counts.
The judge held that the sentencing should run concurrently and the convict should have his name registered in the Lagos State Sexual Offences Register.
The state prosecution counsel, Mrs Olufunke Adegoke, during the trial called four witnesses and tendered three exhibits in proof of the case while the convict testified as sole witness.
The prosecution said the defendant committed the offences in 2020 on Jaye Oyedotun Street, Magodo, Lagos.
