The Lagos State Police Command has
arrested a pastor, Abraham Sunday, for allegedly raping a 16-year-old
girl, Kike (pseudonym) in Adalemo Estate, in the Toll Gate area, on the
Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway.
According to source, the pastor of Christ In All Nations Church in Adalemo, was arrested by
the Ojokoro Police Division last Wednesday, September 2, from where he
was taken to the Department of Criminal Investigation, Yaba.
It was gathered that Kike, who was ill,
had been taken by the pastor to a house in Adalemo Estate on August 28
for deliverance prayer when the incident occured.
It was learnt that the victim’s mother,
who said Sunday was a.....
family friend, became apprehensive after she did
not hear from her daughter.
The matter was said to have been
reported to the police by the landlord of the house where Sunday
allegedly camped the teenager to rape her.
A police source explained
that after Kike was rescued, she was taken to a hospital, where a
medical test confirmed that she had been raped. The pastor was
thereafter arrested.
He said, “The pastor was like a foster
father to the girl. She was ill and had gone to a hospital in the area.
While returning from the hospital, she boarded the same bus with the
pastor, who said he would take her to a place for prayers.
“Since the suspect was a family friend,
she did not doubt him. So, they went to the pastor’s apartment, where he
camped and raped her for three days. The victim’s mother did not even
know about the deliverance prayer.
“On
Monday, the landlord and some neighbours got suspicious of the pastor’s
arrangement with the teenager and they alerted a non-governmental
organisation in the area, which in turn invited the police. The girl was
rescued and rushed to a hospital, where a medical test confirmed rape.
The suspect was arrested immediately.”
It was learnt that Kike and
her mother were thereafter referred to the Lagos State Domestic and
Sexual Violence Response Team and the Ministry of Women Affairs and
Poverty Alleviation.
However the victim mother have maintained that she would not pursue any case. While admitting that the pastor defiled her daughter, the mother said the pastor had a three-month-old baby, and she did not want him to be jailed.
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