South African pastor sent to life imprisonment for raping underage girl

Nelspruit Sexual Offences Court in South Africa has sentenced a 42-year-old pastor, Dumisani Morris Khumalo, to life imprisonment for the rape of a 14-year-old girl in 2020. The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) DPP Mpumalanga Regional spokesperson, Monica Nyuswa, in a statement on Tuesday, September 3, 2024, said: “The assault had adverse effects on the victim, […]

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Lagos Bishop sentenced to life imprisonment for raping assistant Pastor

An Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court has sentenced a Lagos Bishop, Oluwafeyiropo Daniels, simply called Feyi Daniels, to life imprisonment for raping his 23-year-old female assistant and worshipper (name withheld). The Bishop, who took to the witness box in his own defence, testified that he believed three out of the four women who […]

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Court remands Catholic Rev. Father for allegedly raping, impregnating teenage girl in Nigeria

The Children, Sexual and Gender-based Violence Court sitting at the Chief Magistrate’s court in Awka, Anambra State, has remanded a Catholic priest, Rev. Fr. Nwaigwe Stephen, for allegedly r@ping and impregnating a teenager. The magistrate ordered the prosecutor to transmit the original case file to the office of the Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice of […]

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Nigerian medical doctor gets life imprisonment for raping 15-year-old wife’s niece

Lagos State Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence sitting in Ikeja on Tuesday sentenced the Medical Director of Optimal Cancer Care Foundation (OCCF), Doctor Olufemi Olaleye, to life imprisonment for the defilement of his wife’s niece. Justice Rahman Oshodi sentenced him after he found him guilty of the offence of defilement and sexual penetration of a […]

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Pastor remanded for repeatedly raping 13-year-old girl in Nigeria

A Senior Magistrate’s Court sitting in Aba South, Abia State, Nigeria, on Tuesday remanded 60-year-old Chukwuemeka Orji at the Correctional Centre over the alleged rape of a minor. Mr. Orji, a pastor of the Assemblies of God Church in Aba is facing a one-count charge of serially raping a 13-year-old girl that lived with him. […]

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Nigerian Bishop arraigned for allegedly raping 2 church members, remanded in Kirikiri

Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court, sitting at Ikeja, Lagos State, Nigeria, on Monday, April 17, remanded a clergyman, Bishop Daniel Oluwafeyiropo, for allegedly raping two of his church members. Oluwafeyiropo, who is the founder of ‘I Reign Christian Ministry’, was remanded in Kirikiri correctional centre pending the fulfillment of his bail conditions. The suspect […]

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Police arrest prophet for raping 8-month pregnant woman in Nigeria

Operatives of the Ondo State Police command in Nigeria have arrested a prophet identified as Festus James for allegedly raping an eight-month-old pregnant woman at Agbabu village via Ore, in Odigbo council area of Ondo state. Parading the suspect before newsmen, the spokesperson of the state police command, Funmi Odunlami, said the prophet who came […]

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Can husband be found guilty of raping his wife in Nigeria? See what lawyers, others say

Some Abuja-based lawyers, on Friday, expressed divergent views committed by himself upon his lawful wife under the Nigerian law. The lawyers, who made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja, said the spousal or marital exemption principle implies that by mutual matrimonial consent and contract the wife had […]

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Pastor arrested for raping his 7-year-old daughter

Founder of “Jesus is a Barrister Church” in Akapabuyo, Cross River State, Nigeria, Pastor Daniel Udoh, has been arrested for defiling his 7-year-old daughter. Udoh was paraded alongside 79 crime suspects at the Command Headquarters in Calabar. He admitted to committing the crime adding that he was tempted. His daughter is receiving treatment in an […]

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