Pastor Basil Princewill, the
founder of Mountain Movers Ministry International, Nyanya, Abuja, has been
sentenced to to seven years in prison after his conviction for raping a
14-year-old girl.
Justice Hussein Baba-Yusuf of the
High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) in Maitama, in a judgment on
Tuesday, convicted Princewill on two of the four counts contained in the charge
on which he was tried.
Princewill was araigned in June,
2012, by the police a four-count charge bordering on rape, impersonation and
attempt to cause abortion and abetting miscarriage.
He was said to have forcefully
had sexual intercourse with a 14-year-old girl, Favour Iwoha, between July 27
and December 31, 2011, at Mountain Movers Ministry International and his house
at Nyanya, Abuja, without her consent and impregnated her.
He was said to have subsequently
given her drugs with a view to aborting the pregnancy. The prosecution said
Princewill, on or about January, 2012,
attempted to cause miscarriage on the minor when he gave her drugs to
take and abort the pregnancy, which caused her to bleed
After the judge pronounced
Princewill guilty and convicted him, his lawyer, Kekere Akpe, pleaded with the
court to temper justice with mercy, and that the convict was a first-time
offender as well as a family man.
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