A
prophet of a popular white garment church who r*ped and impregnated his
16-year-old teenage daughter, was on Thursday, sentenced to prison with
hard labour, by a court in Ondo State.
The victim and the suspect who is sentenced to prison
A self-acclaimed Church Pastor identified as Taiwo Olubayode, who
is married to three wives and blessed with 13 children, has been
sentenced to nine years imprisonment with hard labour.
Pastor Taiwo who is a prophet with one of the white garment
churches in Odode-Idanre, was on Thursday, sentenced by a family court
in Oke-Eda Akure, Ondo State, for impregnating his 16-year-old daughter,
Elizabeth Bosede.
While speaking concerning the criminal offence of the pastor, a police source, said: “It
was discovered during investigation that the victim, after she found
out she was pregnant, alerted the father. He gave her some concoctions
to drink; he wanted to abort the pregnancy.
"But the concoctions failed. After repeated attempts and with
the pregnancy advancing, he left it. The suspect tried to smuggle the
victim out of the house to a private clinic for an abortion but the girl
refused and threatened to raise the alarm.
”The suspect, in anger instructed the victim to stay indoors to
avoid suspicion from church members and neighbours. Whenever neighbours
asked after Bosede, Olubayode would tell them she traveled to visit her
mother. It was later discovered that he got his daughter pregnant and
kept her locked up.”
The sexual relationship between father and daughter, which had been
going on for years, became public knowledge after Bosede’s baby bump
started becoming very obvious. She stopped going to school and
eventually gave birth to a baby boy, which was named Micheal.
According to the Prophet, he was tempted by the devil to have s*x
with his daughter. Although, some residents alleged that the cleric did
it for occult purpose.
Investigations showed that the cleric, whose church is located at
Okedo Street, Odode, Idanre, is quite popular. A good number of people,
from far and near, used to troop to the church seeking miracles.
One of the church members said: “The prophet is a specialist in
giving ladies spiritual bath. He takes them to the stream to wade off
evil spirits. These spirits are believed to have deprived the ladies of
husbands. Some of these ladies are tormented by spiritual husbands.
"The spirits also preventsome of these women from having
babies. The spiritual baths are supposed to free the women and make them
have husbands.”
Olubayode lives alone with Bosede after his three wives left him
for reasons yet unknown. When Bosede’s mother wanted to walk out of the
marriage, she tried to take Bosede, but Olubayode refused. He insisted
that he needed Bosede to run errands.
One of his family members said: “Olubayode refused to remarry
after his wives left. It’s now clear that he preferred to have s*x with
his daughter, rather than to get a new wife.”
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