General Interest
Pastor nabbed for drugging and raping 16-year old girl who had gone for counselling and deliverance
A 35-year-old pastor in Akwa Ibom State has been arrested by the police for allegedly r.a.p.ing a 16-year-old girl inside his church.
The police said Nnamso Friday Jacob, otherwise known as ‘Major Prophet Honesty Jesus,’ drugged the girl before he r.a.p.e.d her.
The incident reportedly occurred on June 23 at Mr Jacob’s church, the Living Power of Zion Church, Ndue Eduo, Okon Eket, Eket Local Government Area of the state, the police spokesperson in the state, N-nudam Fredrick, said in a statement.
The police said the girl went for “counselling and deliverance” which was fixed by the suspect who is the general overseer of the church.
“While she was in the prophet’s counselling room, the suspect administered an intoxicating liquid substance to the victim and thereafter took advantage of the victim and had unlawful carnal knowledge of her,” Mr Fredrick, a chief superintendent of police, said.
Mr Jacob is the second pastor to be arrested for rape in Akwa Ibom in less than a month.
The police on Wednesday said a pastor was arrested in the state for keeping eight teenage girls in a so-called deliverance centre and allegedly r.a.p.ing one of them said to be 15 years old.
The police said the girls are between the ages of 13 and 16.
The pastor, identified as Inimfon Eyo Inyang, 33, was said to have also made an attempt to rape a 21-year-old girl. He was among the 12 people arrested for rape in the state.
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