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An Imo State Excessive Court docket sitting in Owerri has sentenced one Pastor Desmond Eke, founding father of Deliverance Ministry of the Good Shepherd in Umuihita Avu, Owerri West native authorities space to eight years imprisonment for raping the spouse of his church member.
The Pastor was discovered responsible of taking undue benefit of the girl who had positioned a lot belief on the cleric.
Eke was arraigned on a three-count cost of raping the girl who was additionally a member of his church and administering a stupefying substance on his sufferer which made her dizzy and weak.
Based on the prosecution counsel, Chioma Emuka, it was whereas within the dizzy state that the convict took benefit of the girl who woke as much as consciousness whereas he was nonetheless inside her.
The Prosecutor stated on enquiry on why he needed to violate the girl, the pastor instructed the 25-year-old lady that his semen was holy sufficient to ship her from marine spirit.
Delivering his Judgement, Justice T.N Nzeukwu convicted Pastor Eke on two-count cost of breaching belief and for raping the girl.
The Decide nonetheless discharged him on the third depend which bothered on inflicting accidents in the course of the sexual assault.
The Decide defined that for the reason that lady was not utterly aware in the course of the incident, there was no means accidents might outcome, since there was no resistance.
Earlier than the judgement, the defence counsel, Barr Ohaka had pleaded that his shopper had been of excellent behaviour having been current in court docket all through the trial with out leaping bail.
He pleaded that as a substitute of a full sentence, his shopper be placed on probatio.
Recall {that a} civil society organisation, Onurube had reported the matter with a pledge to observe it as much as its logical conclusion.
Talking on the judgement, Convener of Onurube, Marjorie Ezihe recommended the court docket for convicting the pastor.
Ezihe expressed optimism that the conviction would function a deterrent to these meaning to bask in inhuman acts of getting carnal data of girls with out their consent.
