A randy pastor with the Royal World Embassy Church, Rufus Olatunji, was in Tuesday remanded by an Ebute Meta Magistrates’ Court, Lagos, for allegedly defiling and impregnating a 14-year-old member of his church.
The Chief Magistrate, Mrs. F.M. Kayode, who did not take Olatunji’s plea, ordered that Olatunji should be remanded at the Ikoyi Correctional Centre.
Mrs Kayode thereafter adjourned the case to March 8 for mention.
Forty-five-year-old Olatunji is facing a two-count charge of unlawful sexual intercourse and procuring an abortion.
The prosecutor, Inspector Kehinde Olatunde, had earlier told the court that the defendant committed the offences in August 2021, at the Royal World Embassy Church, Ipaja.
Olatunde alleged that the defendant had sexual intercourse with the girl in the church’s store, which resulted in the pregnancy.
It was averred that when the defendant found out, he gave the girl a drug to terminate the pregnancy.
Olatunde said that the girl’s parents reported the case to the police and the defendant was arrested.
He said the offences contravened Sections 137 and 145(1) of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015.
