23-yr-old Muslim cleric arrested for raping 29-yr-old undergraduate

The long arm of the law has caught up with a 25-year-old Muslim cleric identified as Mustapha Hammed after he allegedly raped a female undergraduate under the guise of spiritual cleansing.

According to reports, the suspect told the victim that he saw a vision revealing that the victim (a student of Federal College of Education (Technical), Akoka, Lagos, will die in 24 hours unless she took three spiritual baths.

Lagos State Commissioner of Police Edgal Imohimi stated while parading the suspect at the Command headquarters that the suspect took the victim to Itowolo in the Ikorodu area of Lagos State for cleansing to avert the death but unknown to her, he planned to rape her, which he did.

The Lagos CP said: “The Alfa deceived the victim that he saw in a vision that she was going to die within 24 hours. He took the girl to Ikorodu, Lagos, for cleansing so that she will not die.

“At Ikorodu, he raped the girl, who was a virgin.
“He thereafter wiped off her blood with a white handkerchief and since then, according to the victim’s father, the girl has been behaving abnormally because she was completely devastated and traumatised by the incident.”

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In his confessional statement; the suspect said; “On April 7, 2018, I called the girl to come and meet me at my house. The girl is a friend to my girlfriend. When she came, I told her that I saw a vision that she has spiritual husband while I was praying and told her she needed to bath three times to solve the spiritual problem.

“The girl agreed to follow me to my house in Ikorodu. When we got there, she bathed the first time, but before she had the second bath, I had put a frog inside the water. I threw the frog inside the water because I want to marry her but do not know how to tell her.

“When she saw the frog, she ran out of the bathroom. I told her that it was a bad sign and she asked what to do. I then told her to call her boyfriend to meet her at my place. She told me that she could not call anybody and asked me to help her to do everything. She said she was still a virgin and told me to deflower her, so I did. But it was on that day that I realised that she was a virgin”.

Imohimi said the suspect will be charged to court at the end of investigation as the case has been transferred to the Gender Section Unit for further findings.

 

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