ENUGU, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA)- A 61-year-old Pastor Famakinwa Ajayi, has been sentenced to 18 years imprisonment for defiling and impregnating a 16-year-old girl.
Ajayi is also a member of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Ayede Ogbese, in Akure North council area of Ondo State.
He was charged to an Ondo State High 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 sexual abuse and exploitation contrary to Section 32 (1).
It was learnt that the victim later gave birth to a child for the defendant.
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The suit No: AK/195C/2021, was filed on behalf of the Ondo State Government by Mrs. Helen Falowo (Assistant Director of Public Prosecutions, Ondo State Ministry of Justice).
While delivering judgement, Justice Yemi Fasanmi, discharged and acquitted the defendant on Count 2 but found him guilty on Count 1 and proceeded to convict and sentence him to 18 years imprisonment.
Falowo said that the defendant defiled and repeatedly had carnal knowledge of the victim at his house in Ayede Ogbese township in Akure North Local Government Area of Ondo State, where the family of the victim were tenants.
The defendant was also alleged to have raped the victim at the market square where he took her on the pretext of delivering her from demonic spirits.
“He continued in this dastardly act unabashedly till the innocent minor became pregnant in October 2021,” Falowo added.
However, the defendant, confessed to having slept with the victim once in his living room before he was charged in court.
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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
Also, Olori Olufunmilayo Nejo-Oluyede, empowered the victim’s mother in a small business to enable her cater for the needs of the baby, whom she affectionately christened “Peter”.
The victim had before then, 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 judgement of the court.
Oba Oluyede said that “This will certainly serve as a deterrence to others.”