The police in Ogun have arrested a lead preacher in the Agbado area of the stated after he allegedly impregnated a 14-year-old choir member.

Abimbola Oyeyemi, police spokesman in the state said the 38-year-old pastor, who is the church’s general overseer, was picked up following a complaint by the girl’s mother.

The victim was raped in October, 2021.

The mother, Mr Oyeyemi said, had initially planned to hush up the crime because she did not want to offend her pastor but changed her mind when her daughter continued to bleed since the rape.

She then lodged a complaint at the Agbado police divisional headquarters.

The victim, currently recuperating in a hospital, told the police that the pastor deflowered her.

The mother reported being 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.

“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.

Mr Oyeyemi stated that Commissioner of Police, Lanre Bankole, has warned parents to stop shielding their daughters’ assailants as they could be charged as an accessory to the crime. 

(NAN)