Video of 2 year-old child raped in Chrisland School played in court
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we told her to draw mr adenekans wee wee. we want to see what it looks like1 a video of a two year 11 month-old pupil of chrisland school lekki lagos portraying her alleged serial defilement by the schools supervisor was played today at the ikeja sexual offences and domestic violence court1 proceedings lasted from 11a.m. to 3.03 p.m1 ogedengbe a clinical psychologist is an expert in sexual and reproductive health behaviour in children and adolescents. she has over 10 years work experience with children and adolescents the court heard1 the video recording exhibit a1 depicted the child named child x in the clinical psychologists office on nov. 28 2016 answering questions about the alleged defilement from ogedengbe and her colleague1 in the recording child x was given a sheet of paper and asked to draw the private part of adenekan which she did as well as another image with the ensuing questions1 child x referring to the other image saidthat is the hand he used to put in my wee wee1 ogedengbe where is mr adenekans wee weechild x in response pointed to her private area1 ogedengbe does he put his wee wee in your wee weechild x yes1 child x in the recording using a teddy bear as a puppet also showed how the supervisor allegedly sexually abused her friend name withheld1 kissing the private region of the teddy bear the child can be heard saying in the video recording your bum bum is delicious your bum bum is sweet i will eat your bum bum1 ogedengbe before the video recording was played in the courtroom in her testimony while being led by mr jide boye the chief state counsel narrated to the court what had previously transpired during her interaction with the child1 she saidthe mother came into my office with a referral letter from the lagos state domestic and sexual violence response team dsvrt and narrated the story and she started crying1 she the mother said she did not know the reason why this was happening to her1 she said she was usually over protective of her children and follows them everywhere except school1 she said somebody in her church handed her a book on sexual education for children which she read and decided to practice it on her child1 that was when the child disclosed that she has been defiled1 she told her mother that mr adenekan comes to take her out of the class and shows her some videos that are sexually stimulating1 she pleaded with us to help to correct the psyche of her child1 i carried out an independent psychological evaluation on the child. i asked the mother to sit at the corner of the room and myself and my colleague interacted with the child1 we did not directly start interrogating the child as that was against the ethics of our profession1 we started an initial interaction with the child to make her relax and gain her trust1 when our trust was gained by the child and she was in a happy frame of mind i asked the childwho touched your wee wee and the child repeated on several times mr adenekan1 i was shocked because i did not expect it from a child her age. i brought out my assessment sheet and i told the child to draw any person that comes to her mind1 she restlessly started jumping around mr adenekan is on my mind we got her back to being settled but she continued talking without yet drawing1 she child x said mr adenekan said it is good for a child to put her wee wee in mr adenekans wee wee at that point in time we decided to do a recording to ensure her story remains consistent1 we asked her how does mr adenekans wee wee look like and she demonstrated playfully by pointing her finger upwards stating sharpener1 we asked sharpener or pencil she stated sharpener1 the video was played during the testimony of miss olive ogedengbe at the trial of adegboyega adenekan 47 a supervisor at chrisland school over defilement of a child1 to my greatest shock and surprise for a two-year-old child she drew a picture which symbolises a reproductive organ of a man in the form of a penis1 i then asked her show me your wee wee she pointed at her private part. i asked her to show me where mr adenekans wee wee is and she pointed at the lower region of her private part1 by then the child was again getting very restless and she ran to her mother who was at the corner of the room1 we still wanted to hear more but she was playfully running around and her mother started probing her is it only you he comes around to take out of the class and she replied no1 the child said it was herself and her friend name withheld so her mother asked her to show us what he normally does with her friend.the child said he kisses her bum bum and he licks her bum bum the child demonstrated by using a puppy in the room1 that was the end of the first interview with the child1 ogedengbe during her lengthy testimony said from her evaluation the mother and child x needed psychological help1 she saidafterwards i decided to confirm from the mother if the child was exhibiting any symptom of psychological abuse1 i asked the mother if she observed any strange behaviour in the child and the mother said yes1 i had asked because i noticed in the course of interacting with the child that the child was occasionally aggressive1 the mother confirmed this and also stated that the child had sleep problems and had been having nightmares.she also complained of sexual inappropriate behaviour from the child and that after the incident the child became curious to see naked bodies of people1 from my findings i found the child exhibited aggressive behaviour inappropriate sexual behaviour sleeping problems and fear1 after the interaction myself and my colleague realised that the child and mother needed help1 the mother also exhibited signs of post-traumatic stress disorder1 we decided to do an intervention and we held two more sessions of psycho-social intervention for the mother and the mother was counselled on how to help and assist the child1 while being cross-examined by mr olatunde adejuyigbe san ogedengbe said that child x was not tutored on what to say during the interview by either her or child xs mother1 we used projective techniques in which a client projects their subconscious minds on paper1 the clinical psychologist revealed to adejuyigbe that she visited the mother of child xs friend who was also allegedly sexually assaulted by adenekan1 we saw the mother of the childs friend but she was not willing to get involved in the case because of stigma she said1 ogedengbe also added that she did not interview the staff of chrisland school child xs father and her older sister.the clinical psychologist also insisted that the child was of above average intelligence1 children 0-5 years are usually not able to form full sentences the child could string meaningful sentences1 in drawing a picture most children her age do not draw meaningful drawings but she did1 i have worked with children her age from diverse sections of society and she is of above average intelligence she said1 on re-examination by boye the prosecutor ogedengbe insisted that the child was not tutored1 if a child is being brainwashed or tutored the child wont be consistent in answering several questions1 you will see it in her non-verbal behaviour that she was tutored there would be no flow of conversation this child was not tutored the clinical psychologist said1 section 137 of the criminal law of lagos state 2011 prescribes a life sentence for the offence of defilement of a child1 justice sybil nwaka adjourned the case till march 21 for continuation of trial1