48 years old Pastor Michael Abiodun, of “The Light House Gospel Church” in Oluwo, Owode Egba, in the Obafemi Owode local government area, has been detained by officers from the Ogun State Police Command for defiling and impregnating a 12-year-old churchgoer (name withheld).
Following reports that the victim’s mother joined the church as a result of spiritual issues that resulted in the deaths of two of her daughters, the pastor was detained by Owode Egba divisional headquarters. She hurried to the church for deliverance in an effort to spare the victim from the same tragedy.
On the fateful day, the Pastor a father of three,asked the victim’s mother to send her to him for special prayer, but on getting there, the Pastor took her into a room within the church and forcefully had carnal knowledge of her which resulted to pregnancy.
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Upon the information, the DPO Owode Egba division, CSP Olasunkanmi Popoola, detailed his detectives to the scene where the randy Pastor was promptly arrested
On interrogation, he confessed to the commission of the crime but blamed it on the devil. He further confessed been the person who dis virgin the victim who was a JSS 2 student.
The mother of the victim explained to the police that since her daughter has not been menstruating before, it was difficult for her to know that she was pregnant until seven months after. The victim, who was delivered of a baby three months ago informed the police that she was threatened by the Pastor of a dare consequences if she informed anybody about what happened between them, and that was the reason she didn’t inform her mother.
Meanwhile, the Commissioner of Police, CP Lanre Bankole, has ordered the transfer of the suspect to State Criminal Investigation Departments for further investigation and possible prosecution.