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Justice Rahman Oshodi of the Lagos Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court, Ikeja, on Thursday sentenced a 63-year-old pastor, Chris Mcdouglas to life imprisonment for raping his 18-year-old church member’s daughter.
The judge sentenced Mcdouglas, a pastor at the Peculiar Generation Assembly Church, Lagos, to life imprisonment after he found him guilty of rape.
He, however, discharged him on six out of the nine-count-charge, bothering on defilement, sexual assault, indecent treatment of a child brought against him by the Lagos State government.
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Oshodi, in his judgment, held that the prosecution had successfully proved the charge of rape against the pastor.
He described the offence as a grave betrayal of trust that left the survivor with lasting psychological trauma.
The judge found that the cleric, regarded within his congregation as a “spiritual father” exploited his position of authority to sexually abuse the survivor.
According to him, the abuse is not an isolated incident but part of a pattern of manipulation and coercion.
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