Prophet bags life Imprisonment for defiling minor in Ekiti

A 47-year-old cleric, Prophet Adeleye Akingbaso, has been sentenced to life imprisonment for defiling a 13 years old girl.

The convict was sentenced on Monday by an Ekiti State High Court, Ado Ekiti Division.

Akingbaso was arraigned in September 2022 on a two-count charge bordering on rape and coercion.

According to the charge, “The Prophet, sometime in July 2022, at Ado-Ekiti did rape a 13-year-old girl. Also, in July 2021, Prophet Adeleye coerced the victim to engage in a sexual act to the detriment of her physical and psychological well-being.

In her testimony before the court, the victim, who described the cleric as a friend to her mother and was sleeping over in their house, said that the man committed the act one night when her mother was on night duty.

She said, “He woke me up at midnight and said I bedwetted, which was strange to me. He brought out a bottle of shea butter and rubbed it on my vagina; that was all I knew. I later discovered I had been raped that night. He threatened me that he would curse me and I would die if I told anybody.

In the court judgment, Justice Blessing Ajileye found the cleric guilty on the two counts, and sentenced the convict to life in prison.