Lagos pastor bags life in jail for impregnating 2 sisters

An Ikeja sexual offences and domestic violence court on Tuesday sentenced a 51-year-old cleric, Nduka Anyanwu, to life imprisonment for defiling and impregnating two sisters. Justice Abiola Soladoye convicted the Lagos-based pastor of impregnating a 13-year-old and a 17-year-old, both of whom have been delivered of babies. Soladoye held that evidence of prosecution witnesses were […]

An Ikeja sexual offences and domestic violence court on Tuesday sentenced a 51-year-old cleric, Nduka Anyanwu, to life imprisonment for defiling and impregnating two sisters.

Justice Abiola Soladoye convicted the Lagos-based pastor of impregnating a 13-year-old and a 17-year-old, both of whom have been delivered of babies.

Soladoye held that evidence of prosecution witnesses were believable and consistent.

While describing the convict as morally bankrupt, the judge said the police ought to have charged the parents of the victims/survivors alongside the convict.

She described the parents as irresponsible, saying that they encouraged the survivors to get defiled by the defendant.

She said, “On several occasions, one of the survivors went back to the parents to complain about the conduct of the defendant. She was beaten and sent back to the defendant’s home.

“The prosecution has proved the ingredients of the offences against the morally bankrupt defendant.”

The judge held that the cleric should have his name written in the state’s Sexual Offenders Register. (NAN)