A 25-year-old woman has been allegedly raped by a pastor of white garment church during a cleansing prayer in Abeokuta, Ogun State.
The woman was said to have been raped by Pastor Monday Ogunyemi of the God Foundation Spiritual Church of Christ, Ibùdó Aseyori of the Cherubim and Seraphim Church, at Osioyemi Eleweran area of the state capital.
BEYOND AFRICA gathered that the incident occurred at about 12:10 a.m., on Wednesday, after the pastor was said to have gone naked and allegedly ordered the survivor to put off her clothes before beginning the prayer session.
It was further learnt that the mother of the survivor, Toyin Akanbi, had earlier approached the pastor to help her daughter, who was allegedly battling with nightmares, with spiritual deliverance.
BEYOND AFRICA also learnt that the survivor’s nightmares had allegedly made the family worry and was advised by a friend to take the survivor to the pastor for deliverance.
According to a police on Monday, Akanbi told the policemen at the Aregbe Division that the pastor had earlier asked her to pay a sum of N80,000 before he could start the deliverance.
“My daughter has been having constant, dreadful nightmares. The pastor is a prophet presiding over the church at Eleweran. He asked me to pay N80,000. But she deposited N50,000 so that the pastor could start the delivery on time.
“When the mother called her daughter hours later to find out how her night experience was, she was surprised when the survivor recounted how the pastor forcefully had carnal knowledge of her in the wee hours of the night she got to the church,” she told the police.
