Olufemi Olaleye, disgraced Medical Director of Optimal Cancer Care Foundation who was sentenced to life imprisonment on the 24th of October 2023 by the Lagos State Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court in Ikeja for defiling his wife’s niece reported as a minor has faulted the judgement by the Court.

Olaleye  has the however appealed the lower court judgement on 35 grounds, accusing the court of erring on all counts, totalling about 35, and therefore seeks redress from the Appeal Court, demanding to be absolved of claim for the said crime as well be discharged.

In his first ground to the court of appeal, Olaleye said the Honourable Lower Court erred in law when in the absence of any direct evidence it held that the alleged victim of the crime was a child of 16 at the time of the offence.

He said the prosecution did not tender any documentary evidence in support of its case that the alleged victim of the crime was 16 years. The evidence in relation to the age of the alleged victim of the crime were all hearsay evidence, which is prohibited in law.

Kemi Pinheiro, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria is the lead of the Legal Team of Opaleye, and has however wrote the Appellate Court querying Justice Ramon Oshodi of the Sexual Offences Court who delivered the judgement which sent Olaleye to a life imprisonment.

Below are the following reliefs Dr Femi Olaleye sought from the court of appeal

i. AN ORDER of this Honourable Court allowing this appeal.

ii. AN ORDER of this Honourable Court setting aside the decision of the Honourable Lower Court contained in the judgment delivered on the 24th day of October, 2023 in Charge No: ID/20289C/2022.

iii. AN ORDER setting aside the conviction of and quashing the sentence against the Appellant by the Honourable Lower Court on the 24th day of October, 2023 in Charge No: ID/20289C/2022.

iv. AN ORDER of this Honourable Court discharging and acquitting the Appellant of the offences spelt out on the face of the information filed in Charge No: ID/20289C/2022.