The expert faulted the survivor's account, noting that if the survivor was traumatised as claimed, she would not be comfortable around Baba Ijesha.
The embattled Yoruba actor, Olanrewaju Omiyinka, also known as Baba Ijesha, led by his lawyer Dada Awoshika, at the Lagos State Special Offences Court in Ikeja, on Friday, cross-examined the forensic interview conducted byThe defence counsel invited Olubenmi Olukolade, a clinical psychologist expert, to examine the forensic interview which was presented to the court by the prosecution counsel at the initial stage of the trial.
The forensic interview was conducted by Olabisi Ajayi-Kayode, a forensic interview specialist, a legal practitioner and cutive Director of The Cece Yara Foundation.In the interview, which was played in the court via a computer and projector, Mrs Ajayi-Kayode had engaged the survivor, 14-year-old Bukumi, in an interactive section where she recounted how Baba Ijesha allegedly sexually assaulted her twice.
He listed the four developmental stages of a child’s cognitive capacity as the: Sensorimotor stage: which is from birth to 2 years, Preoperational stage: ages 2 to 7, the Concrete operational stage: ages 7 to 11 and the Formal operational stage, which is from 11 till adulthood. He said according to the forensic interview, the survivor said that after Baba finished assaulting her, he asked her to clean herself up and when she finished cleaning up, she returned to the room where Baba Ijesha was.
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