Pastor Jailed 3 Years for Raping 15-Year-Old Boy in Akure

For defiling boys in his neighbourhood, an Akure Chief Magistrate Court in Ondo State has sentenced a pastor with one of the ‘White garment’ churches, Waleola Sunday, to three years imprisonment without an option of fine.

Waleola who has his church in Okearo Street in Akure, the state capital, was said to have the penchant of seducing male students and committing felatio on them.

In his confessional statement tendered before the court, the 32-year-old self-acclaimed prophet said he had defiled more than four male students before the men of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) arrested him.

According to him, he normally went to public schools during break time, approached the male students and seduced them into committing felatio.  He said he would allow the student to go once he is done with them.

Waleola who blamed the act on devil told his interrogators that he did not know what usually came over him when he was committing such act on the male victims.

However, the convict said he normally came to his senses after he must have completed the act.

The one-count charge preferred against him by the NSCDC Prosecutor, Mr. David Ebriku, stated that “you Waleola Sunday, male, aged 32 years, between March 3, and 4, 2017, at Okearo Akure, within the jurisdiction of this honourable court did sexually abused and exploited one Akinsola Precious aged 15, thereby committing an offence contrary to Section 32(1) to the state Child Right Law, 2007 and punishable under section 32 (2) of the said law.”

The accused who pleaded guilty to the charge, asked the court to forgive him that he would not repeat the crime again.

The plea of the accused was however, rejected by Magistrate V.W Bobmanuel, who sentenced him to three years imprisonment without option of fine.