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The Lagos State Sexual Offences and Home Violence Court docket in Ikeja has sentenced a priest, Bishop Oluwafeyiropo Daniels, to life in jail for the offence of raping a pastor in his church, “I Reign Christian Ministry” in June 2020.
Delivering judgment within the case right now January 26, the presiding choose, Justice Rahman Oshodi, stated he believed the testimony of the complainant in addition to different witnesses who gave direct proof which weren’t contradicted at any level through the trial, regardless of the denials of the defendant.
The court docket additionally held that the prosecution had efficiently confirmed all of the components of rape underneath part 260(2) of the prison legal guidelines of Lagos state, 2015.
Justice Oshodi nonetheless discharged the clergyman of the second depend of allegedly raping one other church member at his residence in 2020.
The court docket stated the prosecution did not show the weather of the usage of power, concern of hurt by the complainant and misrepresentation by the defendant to ascertain guilt within the offence of rape past all cheap doubt.
The court docket ordered that the convict’s identify be Registered within the Lagos state intercourse offenders register. The court docket additionally ordered that the cleric serve his jail time period on the Nigeria correctional middle, on the kirikiri most facility the place he’s presently being detained.
Within the phrases of the choose, the cleric used his dominant character and place to Sexual violate two members of his church.
“Rape carries a compulsory life imprisonment and sexual assault carries a jail time period of three years, which may’t alleviate the hurt in your victims.
Watch a video of the convict arriving the court docket this morning beneath…
