Justice Serifat Solebo of an Ikeja Special Offences Court, on Wednesday, discharged and acquits a 53-year-old trader, Sanni Arowolo, accused of defiling and impregnating his 14-year-old tenant’s daughter.
The court in its judgement, held that the prosecution did not prove the case of defilement against the defendant, beyond reasonable doubt.
It further held that the prosecution was unable to establish that the defendant committed the offence, adding that the Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA) result brought before the court to establish the person who fathered the child of the survivor revealed zero probability that the defendant was the father of the victim’s child.
It was revealed that the court had ordered a DNA test to be carried out on the child of the victim to ascertain if the defendant committed the offence.
“The prosecution was unable to establish anything that the defendant committed the offence and that was why the court ordered a DNA test.
“The court received the report of the DNA through an email and physically through a courier.
“The result of the DNA test showed zero probability. The alleged father lack genetic pattern that can lead to the fact that he impregnated the survivor.
“This man here standing trial before the court may not have been the one that impregnated the child and could not have been the one that defiled her.
“The man in the dock is hereby discharged and acquitted,” Sholebo said.
The state prosecution, Ms Saidat Fashola, had alleged that the defendant defiled and impregnated the victim in her mother’s shop sometime in February 2019.
The prosecution alleged that the defendant defiled the victim in the shop he rented out to her mother.
