Graduate bags life imprisonment for raping 4-year-old girl inside tricycle

The Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court in Ikeja, Lagos State, has sentenced a 22-year-old graduate, Femi Ayoade, to life imprisonment for defiling a four-year-old girl inside a tricycle.

Justice Abiola Soladoye ruled that the prosecution had proven the one-count charge of defilement against Ayoade beyond reasonable doubt.

Justice Soladoye, on Tuesday, September 30, 2025, described Ayoade as a “criminally audacious man who turned a child’s vagina into a playground.”

The judge said: “It is indeed a shameless act.

“The prosecution has successfully presented compelling evidence against the defendant.

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“Consequently, the defendant is hereby found guilty of the charge of defilement and is sentenced to life imprisonment.”

Justice Soladoye also ordered that the convict’s name be entered into the Lagos State Sexual Offences Register.

The Lagos State Counsel, Olufunke Alebiosu, presented two witnesses during the trial, the survivor and her father, while the convict testified as the sole witness for the defence.

The prosecutor told the court that the graduate committed the offence at Infinity Estate, Skido Bus Stop, Eti-Osa, Lagos State, in September 2021.

According to the prosecutor, the offence contravenes Section 137 of the Criminal Law, Chapter C17, Volume 3, Laws of Lagos State, 2015.

The Star