Baba Ijesha: Survivor suffered vagina cut, says medical doctor

The trial of Nollywood actor, James Olanrewaju also known as Baba Ijesha for alleged defilement of a 14 -year-old teenager continued, yesterday, at Special Sexual Offences Court, Ikeja, Lagos with a medical doctor, Dr. Aniekan Makanjuola, testifying that the victim suffered vagina cut.
  
Dr. Makanjuola, the Clinical Director, Women At Risk International Foundation (WARIF), under cross-examination by the defence counsel, Dada Awosika (SAN), said the examination of the survivor showed healed blunt laceration in her vagina.
 

Makanjuola said: “It was a minor laceration that may not necessarily mean blood was gushing out when it happened. There was rupture on that part of the vagina but it has healed.”
  
The forensic medical examination expert clarified that the report she gave was neither based on the story told by the survivor nor on the account by her mother, but on the forensic examination carried out on her. 

She also said medical personnel and a psychologist conducted the examination of the victim.

She said: “Based on our findings, we sent our client to the laboratory to conduct further tests for Human Immuno-deficiency Virus (HIV) 1 and II, Hepatitis B and C. They were all negative. We placed her on prophylactic antibiotics.