A 17-year-old girl has narrated how the resident pastor of a Pentecostal church in Edo State allegedly introduced her to alcohol and had sex with her several times.
The teenager, who spoke to reporters in Benin City, said the cleric had sex with her in her father’s house and at hotels.
She was in tears as she narrated how the affair began last September shortly after she finished her secondary school education.
Stating the reasons for opening up on the love affair, she said she wanted to leave the state for lack of concentration, adding that she wanted the pastor to be jailed.
The girl said: “The pastor used to advise me to stay away from boys, live a good life and respect my parents. I regarded him as my father. I trusted him and confided in him.
“That was how he started calling me, talking to me till it got to a time he told me that he liked me. I took it as a normal thing. He started taking advantage of me. He showed me things I had not seen before and took me to places I had never been to. That was how it started. He was the first person to show me a condom. He taught me how to drink alcohol.
“He told me not to tell my parents. He said they would understand what he was doing. He slept with me many times, even in our house, whenever my parents were not around.
“Thinking about the affair has affected me psychologically. I cannot read again. The whole thing is disturbing me. When I told his wife, she said I was lying and told me to come to their house and repeat it before her husband.
“I want the pastor to be jailed. I’m always shocked anytime I am in church and see him preaching. I was initially afraid of telling my mother about the affair I had with him.”
The victim’s father, who is the board chairman of the church, said he was shocked that a pastor he trusted could defile his only daughter.
He said what pained him most was that the cleric had sex with his daughter “in my home when she was menstruating.”
He said he wanted the pastor to be prosecuted.
The teenager’s mother said what happened to her daughter was sad and unacceptable.
The Nation learnt that the pastor has been arrested and detained by men of the Department of State Services (DSS).
Sources said his wife has also been nabbed.
A senior pastor of the church, who preferred anonymity, said the church was still investigating the matter.
“He told me not to tell my parents. He said they would understand what he was doing. He slept with me many times, even in our house, whenever my parents were not around.
“Thinking about the affair has affected me psychologically. I cannot read again. The whole thing is disturbing me. When I told his wife, she said I was lying and told me to come to their house and repeat it before her husband.
“I want the pastor to be jailed. I’m always shocked anytime I am in church and see him preaching. I was initially afraid of telling my mother about the affair I had with him.”
The victim’s father, who is the board chairman of the church, said he was shocked that a pastor he trusted could defile his only daughter.
He said what pained him most was that the cleric had sex with his daughter “in my home when she was menstruating.”
He said he wanted the pastor to be prosecuted.
The teenager’s mother said what happened to her daughter was sad and unacceptable.
The Nation learnt that the pastor has been arrested and detained by men of the Department of State Services (DSS).
Sources said his wife has also been nabbed.
A senior pastor of the church, who preferred anonymity, said the church was still investigating the matter.
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