A Lagos-based medical doctor, Dr Aniekan Makanjuola, has said that her team has conducted some tests on a girl that popular actor, Baba Ijesha, is accued of defiling.
He is being tried for allegdly defiling the girl when she was seven.
According to the doctor, who is a trained forensic medical examiner, is the Head of Clinical Services at Women at Risk International Foundation (WARIF), she was tested for HIV and two other diseases but the tests came out negative.
Makanjuola, however, said that they found out that there was blunt penetration.
The physician told the Ikeja Special Offences Court, Lagos, on Thursday: “Our findings were that there was a blunt penetration of the vagina which was consistent with the client’s history.
“We took her to the consulting room and she gave a history of the events from seven years ago. She did not mention these incidents to her mother but it began to affect her mood and academic performance.
“She disclosed what happened to her mother’s friend on April 16 who in turn informed her mother. We decided to do an examination.
“There was a normal external genitalia, we observed a healed laceration on the labia minora at the 3’0Clock position; we also observed a notch at the 6’0 clock position.
“Based on these findings, my lord, the client was sent to the laboratory for more tests, they were HIV 1 and 2, Hepatitis A, B, Syphilis and pregnancy and they all came out negative.
“She was sent for psychological assessment and a report was made, authenticated and sent to the SCID.”
“The healed lacerations connotes that the lacerations found in the genitalia were not something that was recent my lord.”
