{"id":189767,"date":"2024-06-14T01:12:18","date_gmt":"2024-06-14T01:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/06\/14\/ekiti-court-sentences-winners-pastor-to-life-imprisonment-for-defiling-minor\/"},"modified":"2024-06-14T01:12:18","modified_gmt":"2024-06-14T01:12:18","slug":"ekiti-court-sentences-winners-pastor-to-life-imprisonment-for-defiling-minor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/06\/14\/ekiti-court-sentences-winners-pastor-to-life-imprisonment-for-defiling-minor\/","title":{"rendered":"Ekiti Court Sentences Winners Pastor To Life Imprisonment For Defiling Minor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>An Ado-Ekiti High Court has sentenced a pastor of the Winners Chapel Church in Omuo-Ekiti, identified as Enoch Gbinyiam, to life imprisonment for raping a minor within his church premises.<\/p>\n<p>The State Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), Mr Julius Ajiba, told the court that the defendant raped the daughter of a member of the church during her visit to the vicarage.<\/p>\n<p>It was gathered that the horrible incident append during one of her visits to the cleric residence that the convict offered her a sedated bottle of Fanta.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:\u00a0Police Kill One, Arrest Suspected Kidnappers Of Ekiti Pupils<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to him, the victim usually visited the Vicarage to assist the pastor\u2019s wife with house chores, and teach and help his young children with their school assignments.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cIt was during one of her visits to the mission house that the defendant sedated a bottle of fanta and offered her to drink.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe minor took the fanta and slept off only to wake up and found out that she was bleeding profusely from her vagina.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to Vanguard, the defendant was subsequently arrested and charged to Court.<\/p>\n<p>He said that the offence contravened Section 2 of the Gender Based Violence (Prohibition) Law, 2019.<\/p>\n<p>The DPP called four witnesses and tendered two Exhibits to prove his case.<\/p>\n<p>The defendant, who spoke through his counsel, Mr Adeyinka Opaleke, pleaded not guilty to the charge against him.<\/p>\n<p>He called one witness and tendered an evidence in defence of himself.<\/p>\n<p>The Presiding Judge, Hon. 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