By Cajetan Mmuta, Awka
The police in Anambra state have arrested a pastor of a Pentecostal Church for allegedly defiling a twelve-year-old girl.

The incident occurred in the Ifite community in Awka the state capital

The Pastor, Mr. Onyekwelu who is also a Lecturer at the Nnamdi Azikiwe University Awka was said to have defiled the minor who was living with him.

The little girl who hails from Ufuma in Orumba North Local government areas of Anambra state, in an interview said that when she could not bear the pains of rape by the cleric which took place at about 9:30 pm on Wednesday.

Narrating her ordeal, she said that she was forced to jump off a two-story building and broke her leg in the process.

The girl who is presently receiving treatment at the Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University Teaching hospital (COOTH) in Awka, said “On Saturday my mother sent me to one woman who later took me to the house of Rev Onyekwelu for me to be cooking and cleaning the house for him since his family is not around.”

“On that same Saturday I came to his house after doing all the house chores, I went to bed, he came to me and started forcing his penis inside my body and I started crying because it was paining me. I told him to leave me that my mother told me not to do such a thing but he continued forcing me and when I cried loud he started beating me.”

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“On Sunday, he went to church alone and when he came back that night he started inserting his fingers inside my body, He also forced me to suck his penis and I refused and he started beating me again.”

According to her, “The thing continued until yesterday being Wednesday when he was answering a phone call in the night, I told him I want to go and ease myself, he allowed me to go and by that time he had locked up the doors. So, I opened the toilet window and jumped out from there and I broke my left leg.”

The mother of the girl, Mrs. Chinwe Okafor confirmed that she gave her child to a friend who told her that she has a relationship that needs a girl of that age as a house help.

She said that her friend told her that the man’s family are in Abuja and she would want her daughter to stay with the suspect as a house help.

Mrs. Okafor who lamented how her daughter ran to the kitchen to sleep one of the nights to run away from what she called torture, noted that the man still went to the kitchen and brought her out and continued with the act.

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“When she jumped from the upstairs, someone came out from the building and saw her, then, he started shouting and rushed her to the nearest hospital along the street called Climax Ifite Awka.

“Am pleading with the police to give us justice in this matter. Had it been that my daughter used to head to land on the floor nobody will know what happened, the man may even say that my daughter was possessed by evil spirit” she added

The Police Public Relations Officer of the state command DSP Ikenga Tochukwi who confirmed the arrest of the man said the investigation into the matter had commenced.

He assured me that the suspect would be charged to court at the end of the investigations.