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Pastor With Wife Arrested For Raping Teenage Chorister
Operatives of the Ogun Police Command have arrested one Pastor Peter Taiwo of Christ Apostolic Bible Church, Alaja Oke, Saje, Abeokuta, the state capital, and his wife, Mrs Elizabeth Taiwo, over alleged rape of a 16-year-old chorister of the church.
The couple had been arrested on Friday following a grievance lodged at Adatan divisional police headquarters by the sufferer.
The sufferer whose identify has been stored underneath wraps advised the police that whereas she was within the church for choir observe, the pastor’s wife instructed her to go and meet him of their room “as a result of the pastor wished to ship her on errand.”
Based on the complainant, as quickly as she bought into the room, the pastor’s wife locked the door from exterior, the pastor overpowered her, and forcefully had intercourse along with her.
She additionally reportedly advised Police that “the pastor’s wife later got here in after her husband has happy himself and met her crying and he or she advised her to cease crying as she is now a lady, she then warned her by no means to inform anyone or else she is going to die.”
The Police Spokesman, Abimbola Oyeyemi, in a press release on Sunday, stated the DPO of Adatan division, SP Salaudeen Abiodun, detailed detectives to the scene, the place the randy pastor and his wife had been apprehended.
“On interrogation, the couple confessed to the crime however blamed the satan for it. In addition they pleaded for forgiveness from the sufferer,” Oyeyemi stated.
He disclosed that the sufferer had been taken to hospital by the police for medical remedy.
Oyeyemi quoted the commissioner of police, Lanre Bankole, to have ordered the switch of the suspects to anti human trafficking and baby labour unit of the state Prison Investigation and Intelligence Division for additional investigation, with the view to charging them to court docket as quickly as investigation is concluded.
