Operatives of the Ogun State Police Command have arrested a 43-year-old pastor, Clinton John, for allegedly defiling a 16-year-old girl (name withheld) at Agbado area of the state.
John, said to be a pastor at Mega Healing Ministry, allegedly defiled the minor in November, 2022.
The police spokesperson, Omolola Odutola, on Sunday, said the arrest was made after a family at Giwa Agbado reported a case of alleged defilement of their 16-year-old girl by John at the Agbado Divisional Police Station.
Oduntola said, “The family reported that their daughter had been repeatedly treated for recurring infections and exhibited frightful tendencies that made them suspect that she might have been involved in an intercourse.
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“But she was concealing the identity of the person as the parents needed to persuade her and she later confessed that one John, a pastor of Mega Healing Ministry, had fiercely been having carnal knowledge of her, since November 2022.
“Their daughter further stated that the pastor threatened to kill her, if she ever revealed the cagey affair to anyone.”
Odutola said the suspect, during an interrogation, confessed to the crime and admitted that he severally had unlawful carnal knowledge of the girl.
She said the “rape survivor” had been directed to go for treatment and examination, while the suspect would be transfered to the State Criminal Investigation Department, Eleweran, Abeokuta, for discreet investigation.
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