How Pastor R*ped & Impregnated Member’s Daughter, 14

CYRIACUS IZUEKWE

A clergymen, Pastor Rufus Bola Olatunji, of the Royal Word Embassy Church located at Ipaja area of Lagos, has reportedly desecrated the house of God after he allegedly raped one of the members 14-year old daughter inside the church. 

P.M.EXPRESS reports that Pastor Olatunji in the process impregnated the girl and secretly attempted to terminate the pregnancy by giving the girl noxious substances but was caught and everything got exposed.

The matter was reported to the Police in the area and he was arrested. He was later transferred to the SCID Yaba, Lagos, where he made confessional statements and admitted to have committed the alleged offence.

According to the girl, Pastor Olatunji started molesting her in 2019 when she was still 11 when her mother directed her to go and live with him in the Church during the onset of Covid-19 pandemic. 

He was said to usually get up at night and go to her room to molest her. Initially, she refused to yield to his advances but he convinced her that he was a man of God and she succumbed.
She said the abuses continued after she went back to school and he gave her a phone number she can use to reach him. Within that time, he used to send some money to the girl without the knowledge of her parents.

However, the whole thing got exposed when she became pregnant and the Pastor prepared noxious substances and gave her to drink. By the time the whole thing leaked, she then opened up and narrated how she was abused before she got pregnant.

After interrogation by the Police, Pastor Olatunji was found culpable. He was subsequently charged before the Ebute Metta Magistrates Court for defilement and attempting to procure abortion. 

When he was arraigned, the Court did not take his plea and equally denied him bail following a motion by the prosecutor, Inspector Olatunde Kehinde, asking the Court to refer the matter to the DPP for advice.
The Presiding Magistrate, Mrs. O.O. Ekundayo, ordered his remand in custody pending the outcome of the DPP’s advice. 

The Court also directed the prosecutor to duplicate the file and send it to DPP while the matter was adjourned till 8th March, 2022, for report of the DPP to be available, which will determine if the matter will be transferred to the High Court or not over jurisdiction.