Police operatives in 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.
Police public relations officer
of the Command, SP Omolola Odutola, disclosed this in a statement issued to
newsmen in Ota on Saturday.
Odutola explained that 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.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 sexual intercourse.
“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.
She said the suspect on
interrogation confessed to the crime and admitted that he severally had
unlawful carnal knowledge of the girl.
According to Odutola, the9 rape
survivor has been issued with medical forms for treatment and examination,
while the suspect will be transfered to the State Criminal Investigation
Department, Eleweran, Abeokuta, for discreet investigation
he 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 sexual intercourse.
“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,” the PPRO added.
She further stated that the
suspect on interrogation confessed to the crime and admitted that he severally
had unlawful carnal knowledge of the girl.
According to Odutola, the rape
survivor has been issued with medical forms for treatment and examination,
while the suspect will be transferred to the State Criminal Investigation
Department, Eleweran, Abeokuta, for discreet investigation.
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