A Pastor, simply identified as Pillar, has been arrested by policemen attached to Rumuji Police Division, Rivers State Command for alleged defilement and impregnating a fifteen-year-old girl.
Nigeriacrime.com gathered that the arrest of Pillar, Pastor of a new generation church in Ndele community followed complaint instituted by Mr Amesi ThankGod, brother-in-law to the teenage victim.
Speaking on the incident, ThankGod said “If her mother goes to the farm, the girl normally goes to the church to relax, and returns home by evening. Days ago she started vomiting, prompting my wife to take her for medical checks. The test result confirmed that she is pregnant. That is how we knew.”
“From what she (victim) said Pastor Pillar threatened her life if she opened up on her ordeal. But when my wife confronted him, he agreed to take responsibility, pleading abortion for my underage sister-in-law, a suggestion the family resisted.”
“The girl is not strong. She is sick and it is her mother or my wife who bathes and dresses her up as a result of the stress of the pregnancy.”
It was also learned that the vigilantes in Ndele took the suspect in custody to prevent mob attacks before handing him over to men of the Rumuji Police Division.
Prince Wiro, National Coordinator, Centre for Basic Rights Protection and Accountability Campaign, has urged the Police to “investigate the case without bias and suspect rightly prosecuted if found culpable.”
In a similar development, policemen attached to the Adamawa State Police command have arrested a 35-year-old serial rapist identified as Wilson Sunday, for allegedly raping five minors between the ages of eight to fourteen in Bachure, Yola North Local Government Area.
Confirming the arrest the spokesperson of the command, SP Yahaya Nguroje, said the suspect who resides in Damilu in Yola North allegedly committed the crime in January 2023 and subsequently continued.
Nguroje said the suspect lured the victims into an uncompleted building away from the eyes of the public and took advantage of them while they were on their way going or returning from school and had unlawful carnal knowledge of them. The police spokesperson mentioned that the incident was reported to the Divisional Police Headquarters, Kofare by the parents of the victims having observed the unrepentant attitude of the suspect