Lagos Pastor Arrested For allegedly raping His Step-Daughter

According to punch,A 42 year old Pastor, Ikpa chidiebere, who hails from the Bende LGA of Abia State, has being arrested by Lagos police command for raping and deflowering his step daughter whose name were withheld in the surulere area of Lagos. The cleric who denied the allegation told PUNCH that it was a neighbor, identified  as Richard, that did rape the 14-year-old girl, but he decided not to report the matter to the police because he (Pastor Ikpa) had a forgiving character.

But, the SS2 student, who eventually reported the incident to police last Friday,  insisted that she was raped on several occasions.

the girl also say that whenever she tells the incidents  to her mother, she always shout her down and refused to take any action on the matter.

A police source told PUNCH that the girl reported that Pastor Ikpa had allegedly been sleeping with her since she was 10 years old and was the one who deflowered her.


The victim claimed that the suspect deflowered her when she was 10 years. He had allegedly been sexually molesting the girl since that time.“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 police said that“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.”

The pastor who claimed that 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 the girl, then it is Richard, not me.

Police have already started their investigation to actually know who is lying between the victim and her step daughter. But ehh the kind of stories we hear these days make me wonder what direction this world is heading to.