A Pastor of the The Lord’s Chosen Charismatic Revival Church, Nduka Anyanwu has been remanded for defiling and impregnating two underage sisters under the pretence of being their spiritual guardian.
According to an NGO known as Stop The Abuse, Anyanwu allegedly began raping the younger sister when she was just 9 and the older one when she was 16.
They also alleged that the parents of the girls knew but allowed the pastor carry on because he told them it is the only way he could remove a “spiritual mark” on them that “repels good things”.
When he was eventually arrested by a team of advocates from the NGO, they stated that the parents of the girls allegedly tried to defend him.
The parents refused his arrest based on the fact that he is a man of God and he has already promised to marry their older daughter.
According to the NGO, Anyanwu said that he wanted the older sister to keep the pregnancy with the promise to marry her but asked that the younger sister aborts her pregnancy because “what happened between them was a mistake”.
In June, Police Prosecutor ASP Roman Unuigbe told the court that the defendant committed the offences in Oshodi area of Lagos state.
Unuigbe also disclosed that Anyanwu impregnated the two sisters aged 17 and 13 (names withheld), after defiling them on several occassions at the church’s complex.
He added that the offence contravenes Section 137 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015 which stipulates life imprisonment for the offence of defilement of a minor.
Chief Magistrate, Mrs A. Adedayo who presided over the case remanded the defendant in a custodial center and adjourned the case to September 15 for facts and sentencing.
