by David Cyril

Wesley Eselojor, 50, has been arraigned in a London court for an alleged rape charge of a child. Eselojor reported himself to the police after receiving a text message from the accuser threatening to report him if he failed to pay her the sum of £5,000.

The London underground worker, of Belvawney Close, Chelmsford, is now facing four counts of indecent assault, at the Chelmsford Crown Court. One of indecency with children and three of rape against the girl when she was aged between 12 and 16.

The prosecutor David Wilson said, “It was a rather unusual means in which it came to the attention of police.”

“It was not until her birthday that the complainant decided that she would come and reveal what had taken place as far as her childhood was concerned.

“The first movement she took was to contact this defendant about what had taken place between her and him when she was a child. She did this by way of a text communication.

“She will tell you that she wanted an admission from him but what she actually did and – you can question the wisdom of this – was to text him wanting £5,000 in money or otherwise, in a few days, she would tell her mother, father, brother, auntie and police everything that had gone on in her childhood, and how he had sexually abused her starting from around the age of 12 or 13.”

Meanwhile the Chelmsford Crown Court was told that Eselojor, visited Chelmsford police station last year to show them the message, three days later police interviewed the alleged victim, who then made her allegations.

In police recordings, shown to the jury of 10 women and two men, the alleged victim claimed Eselojor first raped her by luring her into watching cartoon classic Tom And Jerry together.

The prosecutor added: “The defendant threatened her at the time that if she told anybody her mother would ‘go away’ and that was effectively a way of buying her silence.

“For some reason however she decided this was an age at which she would extract from the defendant a form of confession from him.

“Well, the defendant didn’t admit any of the contact and reported it and brought it to the attention of the police.”

The text message which implicated the 50 year old Nigerian has been persistently denied by him in trials.