Pastor rapes a 19-year old lady while carrying out spiritual cleansing

A rapist pastor identified as Anthony Arogunmasa is currently in the police net in Ekiti State for allegedly raping a 19-year old lady.

 

The girl when interview said that Arogunmasa lured her into his residence under the pretence of giving her spiritual cleansing.  She state:   “I was just meeting the pastor for the first time in my life. He approached me and told me that I needed some spiritual cleansing. He said that God instructed him to ensure that the spiritual cleansing was done for me. I fell for him because I saw people calling him pastor. He took me to his house and gave me a candle and soap and asked me to start praying. He also brought out certain ob­jects which he said were prayer items for the spiritual cleansing. In the course of the prayers, he asked me to remove my cloth­ing and just tie a wrapper and I obliged. It wasn’t long after that he suddenly jumped on me and eventually had carnal knowl­edge of me forcefully.”

 

 

 

According to The Sun newspaper, the pastor who did not deny having carnal knowledge of the girl insisted the girl was his girlfriend.  But the Police Public Relation Officer (PPRO) of the state said from preliminary investigation the girl could not have been the pastor's girlfriend because he could not tell them the name of the girl when asked.

 

The PPRO said: “We have proved that it is a clear case of rape. We have a medical proof and during our investigation, we dis­covered that the victim couldn’t have been a girlfriend to the suspect as he (pastor) claims. You can imagine that he doesn’t know the names of the lady, nor where she lives or any of her friends or relations and he claims to be the lady’s boyfriend. How is that possible?”

 

The police spokesman added: “The sus­pect, who confessed to committing the crime, accosted the victim on September 23 at about 2000 hours and lured her to his house to perform spiritual cleansing because he perceived that the victim was under a spiritual spell. On getting to his room, the victim was threatened and put under fear of harm before being raped''

 

Medical report has confirmed that the victim was actually raped.  And that he will be charged to court as soon as investigation into the case in concluded.”