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Pastor bags 7 years in prison for raping 14 yr-old girl
A clergyman, Pastor Basil Princewill, founder of Mountain Mover Ministry International Nyanya has been sentenced to seven years in prison by the FCT High Court Maitam for raping a 14 year old girl.
Princewill on Tuesday was charged with four counts bordering on rape, impersonation and attempt to cause abortion and abetting miscarriage.
The clergyman was alleged to have forcefully had sexual intercourse with the teenager, Favour between July 27 and Dec. 31, 2011 at Mountain Mover Ministry International and his house at Nyanya, Abuja, without her consent and impregnated her.
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Princewill was also alleged to have, attempted to cause miscarriage on the victim when he gave her drugs to take and abort the pregnancy, which resulted to her bleeding.
The witness, Dr Felix Ogunbade of Fountainhead Medical Centre, Mararaba, Nasarawa State, told the court in the course of hearing that the examination conducted on Favour as of the time she was brought to the clinic revealed that she was given an abortion drug.
Delivering judgment, Justice Hussein Baba-Yusuf described the act as shameful, satanic and disgraceful especially from a minister of God whom people look up to.
The judge added that the suspect deserved to be kept away from the public and would face the prison walls like a monastery.
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