S*xual Abuse: Pastor Douglas Has Case To Answer, DPP Says

MICHAEL AKINOLA

Pastor Chris McDouglas Omosokpea of Peculiar Generation Assembly Church, located at No.17/19 Mututiatu Kayode Street off Ayodele Street, Mafoluku area of Oshodi, who allegedly sexually abused some members of his Church by sucking their private parts including a 14-year old daughter of one of his members for the past four years, is sinking deeper as the DPP says he has case to answer.

P.M.EXPRESS reports that following the DPP’s advice, Pastor Douglas, as he is popularly known, will be transferred to the High Court to face trial of defilement which attracts several years of imprisonment if he is found guilty.

He was initially arraigned before the Ogba Magistrates Court for statutory rape, which reportedly took place inside his office within the Church premises, by the Police at Makinde Division over the allegation of defiling a 14-year old girl.

He was denied bail after the prosecutor, Supol Ezekiel Ayorinde, asked the Court to refer the matter to the DPP for advice. Hence the Presiding Magistrate, Mrs. B.O. Osunsanmi, ordered him to be remanded in prison custody and directed the prosecutor to duplicate the file and send to the DPP for advice.
The matter was adjourned till 10th July, 2020, for the report of the DPP to be available while the Court ordered him to be remanded at Makinde Police Station due to Covid-19 lockdown.

The Court did not sit on Friday because of the Covid-19 lockdown but P.M.EXPRESS confirmed that the DPP’s report was ready and it found the cleric culpable which has worsened his situation.

Before now, he had refused to go to Makinde Police Division but instead wrote a petition to the AIG against the mother of the victim, hence all were invited for investigation over his petition.
However, during interrogation, Pastor Douglas reportedly confessed that he had been sleeping with the victim for the past four years from when she was 14 but now 18, hence the DCP D8 immediately ordered for his detention for the charge of statutory rape which attracts several years of imprisonment.

P.M.EXPRESS had reported how Pastor Douglas was said to have held the victim with fake prophecies and she kept the abuses away from her parents, who had been members of the Church for the past 12 years with strong belief that Pastor Douglas was a real man of God.

However, the bubble burst after the victim was no longer able to bear it, started threatening to commit suicide over the trauma and she was persuaded to open up on what she was passing through.