A 14-year-old choir member of the Beloved Chapel, Agbado area of Ogun state has allegedly been raped by her General Overseer.
Spokesperson of the Ogun police command, SP Abimbola Oyeyemi, in a statement on Sunday said Pastor has since been arrested.
He said the 38yrs old General Overseeer, Pastor Israel Adebayo, has confessed to the crime, but said he did not know how it happened.
According to Oyeyemi,the cleric’s arrest followed a complaint lodged at the Agbado Divisional Headquarters of the police by the mother of the victim.
Oyeyemi explained that the pastor would have long been arrested, but the victim’s mother frustrated earlier moves as she said she did not want to offend her pastor.
He explained further that she changed her mind and invited the police after noticing that he daughter had been bleeding ceaselessly since the rape on October 2021.
The victim, currently recuperating in a hospital told the police that it was the pastor who deflowered her.
The mother reported that she was away from home to seek medical treatment when her daughter went to church, but the pastor lured her into his room and forcefully had carnal knowledge of her.
“Upon the report, police operatives were deployed to the church where the pastor was arrested.
“During interrogation, the pastor admitted to defiling the victim and pleaded for forgiveness.
“According to the pastor, his family and that of the victim are friends, but he didn’t know how and why he got himself into committing the crime,’’ he stated.
