Founder and Senior Pastor of Sotitobire Praising Chapel, Prophet Babatunde Alfa and five others have been sentenced to life imprisonment by a High Court sitting in Akure, Ondo State, Nigeria, for last year’s disappearance of a one-year-old child, Gold Kolawole from the church.
The little boy was abducted by an unknown person during the church service at the children section of Sotitobire Praising Chapel, located at Oshinle Quarters in Akure, the state capital, in November 2019, and the whereabouts of the boy was never known.
They were found guilty on two- count charges bordering on kidnapping, aiding and abetting to kidnap preferred against them.
Justice Olusegun Odusola said the prosecution proved circumstantial evidence against the accused persons.
Other defendants jailed include Omodara Olayinka, Margaret Oyebola, Grace Ogunjobi, Egunjobi Motunrayo and Esther Kayode.
Gold was taken to the church by his parents and went missing from the church.
The little boy has not been seen since then