A 14-year-old victim of rape on
Thursday told an FCT High Court Maitama, that Pastor Emmanuel Matthew of the
Winners Chapel allegedly raped her when she was seven-years-old in 2012.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)
reports that the defendant is also the Proprietor of Emmabeth Academy, Mpape,
Abuja, where the victim attended in 2012.
The girl, who said this while
testifying as the fifth prosecution witness, explained that Mathew forcefully
fingered her private part and had carnal knowledge of her school mate who was
also a minor.
She also alleged that the
defendant sexually assaulted her elder sister who was nine years old then.
The police in 2012 charged
Matthew to court with six counts bordering on inducement and rape which ran
contrary to sections 283 and 285 of the Penal Code.
Mr Ejike Orji, the Prosecuting
Counsel, stated that the victim had attended Emmabeth Academy, Mpape, ran by
the defendant.
Orji alleged that Mathew took
advantage of his closeness with the victim, her elder sister and a school mate
who were all minors to have sex with them.
“Sometimes in March 20, 2012, at
Emmabeth Academy, Mpape, Abuja Matthew induced and raped the victim who was
seven year, her elder sister and another pupil of the school’’, he said.
In her evidence in chief, the
victim recalled the name of the school to be “Emmabeth Academy Nursery/ Primary
School, Mpape Abuja’’.
She said: “I was in school and
Pastor Emmanuel took me inside his office and put his fingers into my private
part severally.
“He did that to me and my senior
sister and the other girl. He later gave my sister N10’’.
When interrogated further by the
prosecutor, she said the defendant went ahead to allegedly remove his trouser
and inserted his penis into the private part of the other girl.
She had narrated the incident to
her mother who immediately reported the matter her pastor.
According to her, the mother and
her pastor only warned the defendant of the repercussion of his actions.
The victim further explained that
the defendant had invited policemen three days after the incident to arrest the
mother and her pastor, adding that the police became abreast of the matter
through her mother’s statement.
She said the police immediately
took over the matter by taking the three of them to the hospital for
examinations.
When asked to state the colour of
the underwear the defendant wore during the alleged incident, the victim said
she could not remember because the incident happened seven years ago.
The witness also said she could
not remember the name of the hospital they were taken to for examination,
adding however that she remembered that a doctor examined them.
Justice Hussein Baba-Yusuf then
adjourned the matter until May 30 for continuation.
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