Pastor Rapes 16-year-old During Three-day Deliverance Prayer - Crime -

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.

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Metro learnt that Sunday, 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 Molest her.

A
police source told our correspondent 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.”

Our correspondent 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.

The DSVRT Coordinator, Lola Viviour-Adeniyi, said the team had taken up the rehabilitation of the victim.

She said, “It was an NGO, Rubies Ink, that brought the matter to our attention.

“The
girl was taken away for prayer. She was in the pastor’s house at the
Adalemo area for three days, and during that period, he raped her.

“The
DSVRT reached out to the victim’s mother, but she 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.

“However, we informed the police at Ojokoro division that the state government was interested in the matter.

“This prompted the transfer of the suspect to the SDCI, Saba.

“At present, the girl is undergoing treatment. She was taken to the Mirabel Centre.”

The Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Patricia Amadin, confirmed the pastor’s arrest.

She said, “The police have arrested the suspect, and the matter has also been transferred to the SDCI, Yaba.’’