Shocker!!!!!!! Pastor Arrested for Raping 14 -year - old Stepdaughterz

The Lagos State Police Command has arrested a
42-year-old cleric, Pastor Chidiebere Ikpa, for
allegedly raping his stepdaughter, Ngozi
(pseudonym), in the Surulere area of the state.
Ikpa, who denied the allegation, told PUNCH
Metro that it was a neighbour, whom he
identified only as Richard, that defiled the 14-
year-old girl, but he decided not to report the
matter to the police because he (Ikpa) had a
forgiving character.
However, Ngozi, a Senior Secondary class 2
pupil, who eventually reported the incident to
the police last Friday, January 15, insisted that
she was raped by the pastor on several
occasions.
She added that whenever she told her mother
about it, she usually shouted her down, and
refused to
take any action on the matter.
Ikpa, who hails from the Bende Local
Government Area of Abia State, was arrested by
policemen from the Isokoko division, while Ngozi
was taken for medical examination at the
Mirabel Centre, Ikeja.
The test reportedly confirmed that the girl’s
private parts had been “tampered with.”
A police source told PUNCH Metro that Ngozi
reported that Ikpa had allegedly been sleeping
with her since she was 10 years old and was the
one who deflowered her.
She said:
“The victim claimed that the suspect deflowered
her when she was 10 years. He had allegedly
been sexually molesting the girl since that time.
“The victim’s mother is culpable because she
knew about the abuses. The girl said it was when
her mother failed to take concrete steps that she
came to the police.”
Speaking with PUNCH Metro, the pastor said he
flogged the girl last Thursday and she
disappeared from the house, not knowing she
came to the police to lie against him. He said:
“The girl started living with me when she was 12
or thereabout. That was around 2012. It is not
true that I raped her. I flogged her on Thursday
for being rude and she did not return home
after school. We did not see her until Friday.
She had been with the police.
“The girl has a boyfriend; his name is Richard.
He is the manager of a hotel on Rasak Balogun
Street. If the medical result shows someone has
been sleeping with Ngozi, then it is Richard, not
me.
It is a mystery to me that the girl is claiming
that I slept with her. When we caught Richard
and confronted him sometime last year, he
started begging. The mistake I made was that I
did not report to the police.
My wife got furious and said we must report the
matter to the police, but the man started
begging, sending text messages to me. I forgave
him. I am a pastor.
I was working under a church, but since I moved
to this area, I have not pastored any church.”
The victim, Ngozi, told Punch that Ikpa was lying
and he had slept with her on several occasions.
She said:
“The first time that he would rape me was about
five years ago. My mother sent me to give food
to him in his own house. I was then staying in
my father’s house. That was when he took
advantage of me and raped me.
The man he mentioned is not my boyfriend.
Richard was the man I reported to when I told
my mother about the rape and she did not
believe me. Richard advised me to leave
everything to God.
Sometimes, when everyone was sleeping, he
would come to the room where I was with my
other sisters and he would rape me. I would be
hitting my sisters trying to wake them, but they
did not wake at such times.”
The Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer,
SP Dolapo Badmos, confirmed the pastor’s
arrest.
She said, “The pastor’s arrest is confirmed. He
was transferred from FESTAC to the Isokoko
division for prosecution.”