Oyo police arrest clergyman for having sex with fellow pastor's seven year old daughter

POLICE in Oyo State have arrested 62-year old clergyman Pastor Isaiah Ojo for raping the seven year daughter of his fellow man of God by laying her on the alter and having carnal knowledge of her.

 

In what is now becoming an ugly trend across Nigeria, Pastor Ojo, who is the founder of Dayspring Family Chapel in the Egbeda area of Ibadan, committed the act when the seven-year-old girl went to the church premises with her younger brother to play. According to the police, the girl's private part was badly torn by forced penetration and she has been bleeding since the occurrence.

 

Policemen from the Egbeda Division of the Oyo State Police Command arrested the randy pastor on Thursday after he had initial disappeared. He has since been transferred to the State Criminal Investigation Department for further investigation.

 

Yesterday, the victim said: "Daddy Dayspring is my father’s friend and on Monday, my younger brother and I went to greet him. While my brother was playing outside, Daddy Dayspring asked me to lie on the rug and he lay beside me, removed my underpants and then removed his trousers.

 

He first put his fingers in my private part and he later put his penis in my vagina and I cried, then he removed it and blood started coming out. He warned me against telling anyone, saying that I would die if I did and it was when I went outside to urinate that I noticed that blood was coming out of my private part.”

Narrating how he discovered his daughter’s condition, the victim’s 50-year-old father, added: “I was not aware of what happened on that Monday because I attended a revival held by Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria, Egbeda. On Tuesday evening, I overheard her elder brother saying tell Mummy but I did not pay attention because I thought it was the usual children’s pranks.

“It was my wife who told me to check my daughter’s private part and when I did, I noticed that her pants were stained with blood. Thinking that something injured her, I quickly rushed her to the health centre but was surprised when I saw that the blood was coming from her private part when the nurses checked her."

Pastor Ojo, however, denied the allegations. He claimed he never had sex with the girl for ritual purpose, saying she was young enough to be his granddaughter.