Justice Rahman Oshodi of the Ikeja Special Offences and Domestic Violence Court has sentenced Kolawole Muyiwa, a former part-time lecturer at Adeniran Ogunsanya College of Education (now Lagos State University of Education), to life imprisonment for rape. The crime occurred on October 11, 2021, within the college premises in Oto-Ijanikin, Lagos State. Muyiwa was ...

A 37-year-old individual, Maddison Wilson, who identified as a woman and was charged with serious sexual offenses, including the rape of a young girl, has been found dead. Wilson was due to appear at Southampton Crown Court to enter pleas but the case was discontinued after it was revealed that she had passed away. According ...

  The High Court of South Africa, Northern Cape Division in Kimberley, has sentenced Itumeleng Reclin Machabe, also known as Bendow (27), to two life terms plus an additional 44 years in prison. The sentence follows his conviction on multiple charges, including the r*pe and murder of 11-year-old Relebogile Segami, the r*pe of two other ...

A female lawyer has accused a married father-of-four, identified in German reports as Tim B, of r@ping her in front of an online audience of 1,000 viewers after they met on a dating app. The 31-year-old lawyer reportedly met the 46-year-old armed forces worker in May 2022. According to the woman, they arranged to meet ...

  By Emeka Nwadioke   The last has not been heard of the celebrated sexual assault case of Dr. Olufemi Olaleye, the Medical Director of Optimal Cancer Care Foundation, Lagos.While the medical doctor was found guilty and sentenced to double life imprisonment by Justice Rahman Oshodi of the Lagos State High Court, reprieve came his ...

  Suspended University of Calabar (UNICAL) law professor Cyril Ndifon has opened his defence in an ongoing sexual harassment case brought against him by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC). The professor, formerly the dean of the Faculty of Law, testified as the first defence witness on Monday before Justice James ...

  American music mogul Sean Carter, widely known as Jay-Z, is taking legal action against Houston attorney Tony Buzbee, accusing him of filing a false rape claim. In a motion filed by Jay-Z’s attorney, Alex Spiro, the rapper asserts that Buzbee failed to conduct even basic due diligence before initiating the lawsuit. Buzbee’s claim alleges ...

  The Rivers State Police Command has confirmed the arrest of a couple accused of raping and assaulting a 13-year-old girl at their home in Port Harcourt. SP Grace Iringe-Koko, the command’s spokesperson, shared details of the incident during an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Thursday. Reports indicate that the wife ...

A New York federal judge has permitted a woman, identified as “Jane Doe,” to proceed anonymously in her lawsuit against Jay-Z and Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs, whom she accuses of raping her at age 13. Judge Analisa Torres ruled that anonymity would be allowed at this stage but may require disclosure later for trial preparation. Judge ...

    In a troubling incident, officers of the Amotekun Corps in Oyo State have arrested five male students from Ejioku Community Grammar School for allegedly ambushing and raping female students from another school. The suspects, identified as Mayowa (17), Joshua (16), Seun (17), Sunday (16), and Basit (17), were apprehended following reports of the ...

  The Court of Appeal in Lagos has acquitted and discharged Dr. Olufemi Olaleye, the Medical Director of Optimal Cancer Care Foundation, overturning the life imprisonment verdict handed down by the Lagos State Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court. Dr. Olaleye had been convicted for allegedly defiling his wife’s 16-year-old niece, a charge that the ...

India’s government has asked the country’s top court not to toughen criminal penalties against marital rape during an ongoing case brought by campaigners seeking to outlaw it. The penal code introduced in the 19th century during British colonial rule of India explicitly states that “sexual acts by a man with his own wife… is not ...

  A former Australian childcare worker, Ashley Paul Griffith, has admitted to sexually abusing and raping hundreds of young girls under his care over a span of two decades. The 46-year-old appeared in a Queensland court on Monday, where he pleaded guilty to 307 charges related to offenses committed at childcare centers in Brisbane and ...

  In Avignon, France, a high-profile trial commenced on Monday involving 71-year-old Dominique P., who stands accused of permitting numerous men to sexually assault his drugged and unconscious wife over ten years. The victim, now 72, attended the court proceedings accompanied by her three children. Her attorneys revealed that she has no recollection of the ...

A Kebbi High Court sitting in Birnin Kebbi, presided over by Justice Shamsudeen Jafar, has sentenced three men to life imprisonment for raping an 18-year-old married woman who is deaf. The convicts, identified as Amiru Sani, Aliyu Umar, and Bashar Dan-Inno, are from Wararin Zaromawa village. According to the Prosecution Counsel, Faridah Muhammad, the convicts ...