Woman narrates how pastor allegedly defiled her daughter in Lagos
A Lagos State Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court has been told how a so-called pastor at Peculiar Generation Assembly Church, Chris Mcdouglas, allegedly defiled her 17-year-old daughter.
At the resumed hearing before Justice Rahmon Oshodi in Lagos, a businesswoman (name withheld) said that the defendant had canal knowledge of the survivor at the back of his church, different hotels and in her house.
When the businesswoman, a prosecution witness was led-in- evidence by the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), Dr. Babajide Martins, she told the court that the defendant had intercourse with her daughter on different occasions, adding that the survivor is her first daughter.
The defendant, Mcdouglas who was present in court, is facing a nine-count charge including defilement and sexual assault by penetration. He had pleaded not guilty to all the charges.
In her evidence, the witness told the court that the defendant pretended to be taking her daughter out for gospel ministration, but was having sexual intercourse with her on different occasions from 2017 to 2020.
She told court that the defendant cried when she confronted him for defiling her daughter and he blamed it on the devil.
“Pastor Mcdouglas would come to my house and ask my daughter to follow him for ministration so as to use her talent as a chorister to bless others,” she said.
She further narrated to the court that her daughter told her that the defendant would branch to a hotel to meet with her 17-year-old daughter………………….CONTINUE READING
The witness said: “When I confronted the defendant with some leaders in the church, he said he was deceived by the devil and told me to forgive him. I recorded our conversations with my phone when he confessed to the crime.”
She also said that her daughter told her the defendant would sneak into the house while she was not around, cover the curtains, cover her mouth and force himself on her.
“Pastor Mcdouglas’s encounter with my daughter plunged her into depression, making her to faint occasionally. Each time my daughter fainted, the defendant would come and pray for her and request that I should give an offering. I used my salary most times to sow seed on the instruction of Pastor Mcdouglas. My daughter said that, sometimes, the pastor would call her to his house to help wash his children’s clothes and end up raping her.”
She therefore told court that the defendant had threatened the survivor that she would die if she ever told anyone about it.
The prosecution counsel tendered the six audio recordings of conversations between the witness and the defendant, which were contained in a flash drive and the court admitted it as evidence.
During cross-examination by defence counsel, Mr. Suleiman Salami, the witness told the court that the defendant used to collect money from her family but did not offer financial help to her family.
She noted that she had known the defendant for over 12 years, adding that her husband had been outside Nigeria for 10 years.
She revealed that she was a member of the church, serving in ushering department, as administrative officer and a member of building committee of the church until she left in 2020.
Another witness, the Investigative Police Officer (IPO), Inspector, Akikuowo Omiere, in her evidence told the court that she received a report on April 15, 2020, to the effect that the defendant had canal knowledge of his 17-year-old church member.
When cross-examined, the witness said that the survivor told her that she had not had sex before then. She said she was shown a medical report of the survivor from Mirabel Medical Centre, which revealed vaginal penetration.
After listen to their testimony, the trial Justice Oshodi adjourned further hearing to February 8, 2023. The defendant was remanded in Ikoyi correctional centre.
