On Monday, a Lagos State court in Ikeja heard testimony on how a businesswoman’s 17-year-old daughter was reportedly defiled by a pastor named Chris Mcdouglas.
The witness claimed that Mcdouglas, a pastor of the Peculiar Generation Assembly Church in Lagos, allegedly engaged in multiple acts of sexual activity with the survivor at the back of his church and at various hotels.
The victim’s mother testified in court that the defendant sexually assaulted her daughter from 2017 to 2020 on the pretense of taking her out for gospel ministry. Dr. Babajide Martins, Director of Public Prosecutions, led the mother’s testimony.
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The Lagos State Government filed nine counts against Mcdouglas that are related to defilement, rape, and sexual assault by penetration. He is currently on trial for these offenses.
He entered a not-guilty plea to the accusations.
She claims that when she confronted the defendant about defiling her daughter, he sobbed and said it was the devil’s fault.
She said, “Pastor Mcdouglas will come to my house and ask my daughter to follow him for ministration so as to use her talent as a chorister to bless others.
“Unknown to me, according to my daughter, when he takes her out for ministration, he will branch in a hotel and have sex with her.
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“When I confronted him with some leaders in the church, he said he was deceived by the devil and told me to forgive him.”
The witness, who testified before Justice Ramon Oshodi, claimed that she had filmed the defendant’s supposed confession as well as their chat on her phone.
“The pastor, whom I trusted so much with my family and saw as my spiritual father, entered my house anytime I was not around to have sex with my daughter.
“My daughter told me Pastor Mcdouglas would sneak into the house while I was not around, cover the curtains, cover her mouth and force himself on her.
“My daughter said when he sees that she wants to shout to attract our neighbours, pastor will bring out the fairly-used clothes that I sell and pretend to be selecting from it,” she added.
She said that the alleged sexual contact between her daughter and the defendant left the victim’s mother depressed and continuously dizzy.
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The witness continued by saying that anytime the survivor collapsed, the defendant would visit the home and pray for her. He also instructed them to plant seeds at the church to ensure her survival.
She said, “I used my salary most times to sow seed on the instruction of Pastor Mcdouglas and my husband also gave him money to buy supplements for me.
“She said sometimes, the pastor will call her to his house to help wash his children’s clothes and ended up raping her in his house.
“He threatened my daughter that she would die if she told anyone about it.”
The witness informed the court during cross-examination by Mr. Suleiman Salami, the defense attorney, that she had known the defendant for more than 12 years and that her husband had lived outside of Nigeria for 10 of those years.
She claimed that the defendant used to extort money from her family and that he never provided any financial assistance.
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The woman claimed to have served in the church’s ushering ministry, as an administrative officer, and as a member of the building committee, but she departed the organization in 2020.
She told the court that the survivor, her first daughter, suffered from depression between 2017 and 2020.
“My daughter is moody whenever she comes back from pastor’s house, which is inside the church.
“Pastor does not give me breathing space as he is always in my house.
“My daughter always faints anytime she comes back from ministration and pastor always gives her holy water to drink.
“This has affected my daughter as she always have suicidal thought because I once received a call from her school that she wanted to buy an insecticide,” she said.
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