Pastor Aneke, 44, was alleged to have slept with the victim six different times at his apartment on James Esu Street, in the Bariga area of Lagos metropolis. Originally from Udi in Enugu State Pastor Aneke and the victim’s parents were friends and the girl's mother, a food vendor, was said to have reached an agreement with the clergyman to leave her two daughters with him pending their resumption time at school at 7.45am.
This was because she always left the house for her trade at 6am, while her husband, a security guard, also left for his place of work the same time. It was learnt that one of Pastor Aneke’s three daughters attended the same school with the victim and her younger sister, which made the arrangement to work.
One police source said: “The girl’s mother had been good to him in the past. There was a time he didn’t have a job and it was the woman who fed his four children.
“So, since he had had his own job, the woman thought he would reciprocate by assisting her family to get her two daughters to school, along with one of his three daughters attending the same school. Unfortunately, the man took advantage of the seven-year-old as he would undress her and insert his manhood in her private parts and when he could not penetrate, he would apply his spittle to make it easier.”
He explained that the act went on and the clergyman threatened her not to tell anybody and if she did, he would kill her. However, the girl opened up to her parents and the matter was subsequently reported to policemen at the Bariga Police Division and the suspect was arrested.
She was taken to the Mirabel Centre, Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, Ikeja, where a test allegedly confirmed that there was a penetration. However, the suspect, however, denied raping the girl saying he only attempted to defile her once and when he could not penetrate, he suspended the action.
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