Pastor Famakinwa Ajayi of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Ayede Ogbese, in the Akure North council area of the state, has been jailed by an Ondo State High Court for defiling and impregnating a 16-year-old girl.

The 61-year-old Pastor has been sentenced to 18 years imprisonment, in which he was charged to court on a two (2)-count charge of unlawful sexual intercourse with a child, contrary to Section 31(1)of the Child’s Rights Law of Ondo State and s*xual abuse and exploitation contrary to Section 32 (1).

However, It was learnt that the victim later gave birth to the defendant.

Mrs. Helen Falowo, the Assistant Director of Public Prosecutions for the Ondo State Ministry of Justice, filed the lawsuit with case number AK/195C/2021 on behalf of the state government of Ondo.

The defendant was released and acquitted on Count 2 by Justice Yemi Fasanmi, but he was found guilty on Count 1 and was subsequently found guilty and sentenced to 18 years in jail.

In his home in Ayede Ogbese township, Akure North Local Government Area of Ondo State, where the victim’s family was a tenant, the defendant, according to Falowo, defiled and frequently had carnal knowledge of the victim.

The defendant was also accused of raping the victim at the market square, where he took her under the pretense of rescuing her from demonic spirits.

“He continued this dastardly act unabashedly until the innocent minor became pregnant in October 2021.

The defendant, however, confessed to having slept with the victim once in his living room before he was charged in court.

Meanwhile, upon being briefed of the incident by the Ayede Ogbese Women Vanguard of the town, a renowned women/human’s rights, and wife of the monarch, Olori Olufunmilayo Nejo-Oluyede, took in the victim, sent her back to school and agreed to sponsor her education forthwith Olori Olufunmilayo Nejo-Oluyede.

Also, he empowered the victim’s mother in a small business to enable her to cater to the needs of the baby, whom she affectionately christened “Peter.”

Before then, the victim had dropped out of school and had resorted to hawking pure water on the Ayede Ogbese Akure-Owo highway alongside her mother.

Commenting on the development in his domain, Oba Ajibola Oluyede expressed his profound satisfaction with the court’s judgment. (Nigerian Tribune)

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