Three students of Adeyemi College of Education,
Ondo have reportedly been sentenced to prison for
raping female students of the school in a bid to
initiate them into cultism » .
Two students, Ibijole Oludayo popularly known as Malawi,
Otuyemi Tosin got life imprisonment while was sentenced
to seven years imprisonment after being found guilty of
rape and cultism by an Akure High Court.
The three students were charged to court after the mother
of one of their victims Omolola George reported the case
to the school authority.
At the court, George testified that she was forcefully taken
away by her assailants at gunpoint from the school
premises on the day she was raped. She added that one
of them threatened to kill her if she raised any alarm.
George also told the court that the boys took her to an
unknown destination, raped her and later took her back to
her hostel at about 10 p.m that same day.

Ibijole Oludayo , one of the accused students asked why
she didn't shout for help when she was taken back to her
hostel.
She told the court that she did not shout for help as she
was afraid because she had been earlier threatened and
that she was also ashamed of exposing herself to public
ridicule if she made public that she had been raped.
Another victim speaks out
Another victim, Akintolayo Abigail, told the court how she
too was raped by the same group.
Akintolayo who is said to be a girlfriend of one of the
group members, Ogundeji Festus , the third accused
person said she was raped when she followed him home
after he insisted on going on a date with her.
On getting to his house, she told the court she was
surprised to find other boys in the house, adding that she
was told that she would be raped.
Akintolayo added that Ibijole Oludayo was the one who
removed her clothes, while Festus, her boyfriend, was the
first to rape her and slapped her with four others coming
in to also rape her after him.
After raping her, she said the boys brought out charms
and told her that she had been initiated into their Eye
cult group. »
After studying the victim’s testimony, the medical
evidence brought by one Dr Johnson of the school’s
health centre and the police investigations, the presiding
judge, Justice O.O Akeredolu convicted the three
students.
Akeredolu sentenced the first and the second accused
person to life imprisonment while she sentenced the third
accused person to seven years imprisonment.


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very good