By ADENIKE AYODELE

A man (name withheld) on Thursday narrated before an Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court how a man, Blessing Adetula, allegedly defiled his nine-year-old daughter.

Adetula is standing trial on a count charge of sexual assault by penetration.

At the resumed hearing, the witness was led in evidence by the state counsel, Mr Babajide Boye.

He told the court that the defendant was his church member who he accommodated in his house.

?I know him from church.

?I accommodated him in my house because the work he was doing was close to my house.

?He could not go to work everyday from his own house,? the witness said.

The witness said that his daughter was nine at the time of the incident, adding that he has three children, two boys and a girl.

He revealed that the alleged incident happened on his wife?s birthday.

The witness said: ?I was at work but my wife was at home because it was her birthday.

?My wife left home very early to Ikotun market to get something, before she came back, something happened.

?My wife over heard my daughter telling one of her brothers to tell their mother what happened.

?My daughter later confessed to her mother that Adetula inserted his manhood into her vagina.?

The witness told the court that he instructed his wife to report the case to the police

?The police took my daughter to Mirabel Medical Centre in Ikeja and ran some tests on her,? he said.

Justice Rahman Oshodi, after listening to the witness, adjourned the case until March 12 for cross-examination.

The prosecution alleged that the defendant committed the offence on March 8, 2020, at Raji Street, at Egbe Ikotun, Lagos.

According to the prosecution, the alleged offence contravene Section 261 of the Criminal Laws of Lagos State, 2015. (NAN)