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Court sentences pastor to 7 years in prison with hard labour for defiling minor

  By Ifunanya Obeme-Ndukwe   A Rivers State family court has sentenced a pastor of a new generation church, Pillar Erekwa to seven years...

 


By Ifunanya Obeme-Ndukwe

 

A Rivers State family court has sentenced a pastor of a new generation church, Pillar Erekwa to seven years in prison with hard labour, for defiling and impregnating a 15-year-old girl in Rundele community, Emohua local government area of the state.

 

The presiding Chief Magistrate, Ogeh Elkanah in his judgment ordered that Pastor Erekwe pay the sum of N500,000 to the family of the teenage girl for the medical bills during the pregnancy period, upon completion of his jail term.

 

DAILY POST reports that the Chief Magistrate, Elkanah during the proceedings, denied journalists access into the courtroom for coverage of the judgment.

 

Pastor Erekwa had during the arraignment, pleaded guilty to a one-count charge of sexual abuse preferred against him by the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department.


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