18yr Old NIGERIAN Opemipo Jaji Rapes Girl 11

A teenager accused of raping an 11-year-old girl in a park had attacked another schoolgirl a year before, a court heard.

Opemipo Jaji, 18, is alleged to have followed the 11-year-old girl as she made her way home from school on a bus.

He followed her and dragged her into Jubilee Park, Enfield, north London, and subjected her to a three-hour rape ordeal in November, last year, the court heard.

Her glove had been stuffed in her mouth and she had been stripped and assaulted. 

Rosina Cottage, QC, prosecuting, said the child had caught a bus in Enfield Town along with her friend at 4.30pm.

'She was 11-year-old and was wearing her school uniform,' said Miss Cottage.

'She got on the bus with her friend and they were giggling and chatting. Also on the bus was a young male, the defendant. He watched her get off the bus and followed her.

'He dragged her into a local park in the dark and raped her. She ran home bleeding and injured. Her blood and DNA were found on his clothes and bag.'

Miss Cottage said the girl had been expected home by 5pm and her parents rang police by 5.30 after she failed to turn up.

The girl appeared at 8pm. 'She was dishevelled, dirty and panicky.

'She had a crop-top bra in her hand and said she had been attacked.'

The girl said her attacker 'had kept making fists and cracking his knuckles'.

She later told police that after getting off the bus, she noticed a male walking in front and then behind her. She had tried to avoid him because she felt something was not right.

In the park, he kept asking for her phone - which she did not have - her Oyster travel card and her keys.

At one point, he had threatened to stab her if she moved and caught her when she tried to run away.
He had also threatened to film her and send copies to children at her school, she said.

The girl ran home dishevelled and bleeding and underwent an operation for her injuries.

Jaji, of Edmonton, north London, denies rape and says he was not the attacker, although he was on the same bus.

He claims her DNA on his bag, trainer shoe and the waistband of his boxer shorts was from when he went into the park later that evening, the Old Bailey heard.

But Rosina Cottage, QC, prosecuting, said it was 'not a coincidence' that in 2011, Jaji pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting and robbing another girl dressed in her school uniform.

Miss Cottage said a tie had been placed in her mouth, her clothes had been removed and she was robbed of her telephone and sexually assaulted.

She added: 'He had an interest in pre-pubescent girls and sexual acts with pre-pubescent girls.'

Blood belonging to Jaji’s victim was found on his trainers and Adidas bag and provided a one-in-a-billion DNA match, the court heard later.