ENUGU, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA) – A 51-year-old Lagos Pastor, Nduka Anyanwu, has been sentenced to double life imprisonment for defiling and impregnating two teenage biological sisters inside a church complex.
Pastor Anyawu was jailed by Ikeja Sexual offences and Domestic Violence Court presided over by Justice Abiola Soladoye after being found guilty of impregnating the 13-year-old and 17-year-old sisters.
Anyanwu defiled and impregnated the sisters, both of whom have been delivered of babies, on the pretext of holding prayer sessions with them.
According to Lagos State Government, Anyanwu committed the offences on 3 August, 2020, on Arowojobe St., Oshodi, Lagos State.
The prosecution team – Mr. Olusola Soneye, Mrs. Olufunke Adegoke and Ms Abimbola Adegoke – called five witnesses.
The witnesses are the survivors, their parents and a social worker.
The convict testified as the sole defence witness.
Justice Soladoye held that evidence tendered by prosecution witnesses was believable and consistent.
She described the convict as morally bankrupt.
The judge said that the Police ought to have charged the parents of the victims/survivors alongside the convict.
She described the parents as irresponsible, saying that they encouraged the survivors to get defiled by the defendant.
“On several occasions, one of the survivors went back to the parents to complain about the conduct of the defendant. She was beaten and sent back to the defendant’s home.
“The prosecution has proved the ingredients of the offences against the morally bankrupt defendant,” she said.
The judge held that the cleric should have his name written in the State’s Sexual Offenders Register.
NAN.