Pastor confesses to defiling teenage step Daughter on multiple occasions says it was God that asked him to do so
A cleric based in Osogbo, simply identified as Femi has been alleged of sexually abusing and impregnating his stepdaughter when she was 13 year-old.
The stepdaughter who is now 16-years of age (name undisclosed) approached a Non-Governmental Organisation, the World Institute for Peace to report the incident against Femi.
The victim, aged 16, had approached the World Institute for Peace, to seek Alternative Dispute Resolution.
In an affidavit she swore to at the Osun State Ministry of Justice, she claimed that the pregnancy was aborted after her stepfather impregnated her.
In a meeting with the NGO officials, she revealed that after enduring nearly four years of ongoing abuse by her stepfather, she first reported the situation to a teacher at her school.
She added that her stepfather started abusing her sexually since she was 12 years old.
She said: “When I was 13 years old, I got pregnant and he took me to a hospital for an abortion.
“He asked me to lie to the doctor that my classmate impregnated me and ran away. The first time he had intercourse with me was on my mother’s bed and he has been doing it continuously.
“I decided not to take the matter to court because my mother had four children for him, although two were dead.”
She also said she did not take legal action because of her step-siblings.
“I don’t want a situation whereby when the children grow up, it would be as if I am the one who sent their father to prison.
“I decided not to take legal action because of his children who are my younger siblings,” she said.
Femi, a commercial motorcyclist, as well as a pastor in a church he established, admitted to the crime at the Also at the meeting, Femi confessed to committing the crime.
Femi said: “It is true I slept with her although I don’t remember the number of times I did it with her.
“I’m a pastor and it was God who told me to sleep with her. God also told me to abort the pregnancy.”
The affidavit, sworn to by the mother of the victim on her behalf, partly read, “My daughter went to the human rights organisation, World Institute for Peace, and reported a case of defilement and abortion levelled against her stepfather, Femi, early in August 2024.
“That, I have the consent of all the members of the family to swear to the affidavit that on August 11, 2024, we met with the human rights organisation, World Institute for Peace and agreed to settle amicably within the family.
“That, she (victim) agreed to resolve the dispute through alternative dispute resolution and has engaged in negotiation.
“That the family is not ready to pursue any case whatsoever with Mr Femi any longer.
“That the purpose of withdrawing was as a result of a settlement between the families, which was the sole proposition of the settlement.”
In his address to those involved in the case, the Executive Director of the NGO, Lamina Omotoyosi, urged parents to prioritize their children’s safety, particularly from close family members and relatives.
Lamina also expressed concern over the rising incidents of incest in the state.
