Sexual abuse: Court strikes out charges against Children’s Home operator

A magistrate court sitting in Odeda, in Odeda Local Government Area, Ogun State, has dismissed the sexual abuse case leveled against the Director of Stephens Children Home, Abeokuta, Rev.
Isaac Newton – Wusu, for lack of merit.
Two ex-female inmates of the home had alleged that while their stay there lasted, Newton – Wusu severally abused them sexually after he had carefully drugged them to sleep.
The alleged offences were said to have been committed between 2010 and 2013.
And following complaint to the Police in respect of the allegations by Concerned Past Students of Stephens Children Home (COPASSTECH), the Ogun State Police Command charged the director to a magistrate court in Odeda where an Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP), Austin Ozimini was the Police prosecution, while Mr.
Samuel Nwaji, served as counsel for the accused director (Isaac Newton – Wusu).
But delivering his judgment in the case that lasted about a year, Magistrate B.O Ilo, struck out the suit on the advice of the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP), which stated that the case was borne out of “power tussle” within the management of the Home.
Also, the Magistrate added that the DPP found out that the account of the two principal witnesses in
the case in respect of the allegations, were contradictory, hence the need to resolve the matter in favour of the accused.