An eleven year-old gir has been raped by a pastor of Pentecostal church located at Tasia Road, Inland Town , Onitsha, Anambra state.
The pastor (namewithheld) is presently behind bars at the Central Police Station (CPS) in Onitsha, for allegedly raping the minor brought for deliverance in his church.
The sly pastor was said to have accused the young girl of possesing a demonic spirit and asked her mother, Mrs. Chioma Onyeji who was in the church for a spiritual programme to leave the girl behind for some days in order to send away the evil spirit in her.
It was gathered that the pastor was said to have told Mrs. Onyeji that her daughter would die in the next five days if she went back home with her.
Mrs Onyeji, who leaves in Asaba, Delta State, saw her daughter bleeding from her private part when she returned to pick her girl from the church.
A source said that the girl told her mother that the pastor raped her three times after spreading white cloth on the ground.
The woman was said to have reported the matter to the police who immediately arrested the pastor and charged him for rape.
The Divisional Police Officer (DPO) at the CPS, Onitsha, Mr. Abdul Yusuf, when contacted yesterday on a phone, said that he was not on seat.
But a police officer, who did not want his name mentioned, confirmed the incident, adding that the pastor would soon be charged to court.
The officer said that the pastor had confessed that he raped the girl once and not thrice as she alleged