A 16-year-old Senior Secondary School, SSI student, has revealed she was subjected to S3xual violations since age of 10 years by a pastor at the Egbe branch of a popular new generation pentecostal church in Lagos.
The victim, from her hospital bed around Ikotun area of the state, alleged that the suspect in connivance of a medical doctor, had carried out four abortions on her without her consent.
She said her predicament started after she lost her parents six years ago. An uncle she identified simply as George, took her to Delta State from where the suspect, who had just been separated from his wife, took her to Lagos to look after his child, with a promise to train her in school.
That was when he allegedly started a S3xual relationship with her in his three-bedroom flat at 6, Dolamo Street, Agodo-Egbe.
The victim told Vanguard that whenever he wanted to have S3xual intercourse with her, he would invite her to his bedroom and offer her some drugs after which she would lose her memory.
Her words:
“He usually invited me to bring water to his room at night. Thereafter, he would give me some drugs. But when I summoned courage to ask him one day, he said that the drugs was to make me S3xually active.
“The first time I opened up to our branch’s Senior Pastor and his wife, I was hushed. They even said I wanted to tarnish my guardian’s image, despite all he had done to keep me in school.
“Again, I reported the S3xual molestation to some of my school teachers, but they said they did not know how to go about it and how to prove my claim. They were even afraid that I could be driven away from the house and that it would mean the end of my education.
“This is my fourth pregnancy he has aborted. When he took me to the doctor that has been carrying out the abortion on me, the doctor refused, saying he had been doing it right from when I was 10 years.
“The doctor opened up to me that there could be complications if the pregnancy was terminated. He took me to another place that looked like a laboratory on Monday, where I was laid on a slab.
“I begged the doctor not to do anything, but they pinned me down and the doctor induced me to sleep. When I woke up, I discovered that they had flushed out the pregnancy.”
She added that when they got home that night, the suspect attempted to sleep with her again, but she refused, adding that the next day (Tuesday), she packed her belongings out of the house and headed for school where she intended to be living.
It was while heading to the school that she slumped, bleeding from her private part. Sympathisers rushed her to a hospital along Isolo-Mushin Road, where it was discovered that the abortion was not properly done.
“The hospital bed I laid on was soaked with blood. The attention of a church member, who is also a family friend of my guardian, was invited. When the result of the scan came out, it revealed that the abortion was not properly done”, he added.
Her guardian, who she calls Daddy, has been arrested by policemen at Area ‘M’ – Idimi and investigations, according to police sources, were ongoing.