A Senior Magistrate's Court sitting in Karu, Abuja, yesterday arraigned a pastor and another person for criminal conspiracy, false impersonation, criminal intimidation, criminal force and assault.
The accused are Basil Princewill, the pastor of Mountain Mover Fire Ministry Church, Nyanya, and Pauline Okoh Odey of Block E 7, Flat 1 FCDA Owners Occupier Estate, Nyanya, Abuja.
The police prosecutor, Oyemisi Abiola had told the court that on July 2, the Commissioner of Police FCT received transferred case file with covering letter from National Agency for the Prohibition of Traffic in Persons (NAPTIP).
Abiola said that on June 22, an information reached NAPTIP that the first accused person Princewill and the second accused person Odey conspired among themselves.
He further said that the first accused Princewill had sexual intercourse with a 14-year-old and another 15-year-old girl, both students and also members of his church.
Abiola said that Princewill claimed that he was carrying out deliverance on them and in the process he impregnated the first victim.
On discovering that the girl was pregnant, Princewill conspired with second accused person, Odey, who took the victim to Fantami Head Medical Centre, Mararaba, Nassarawa, and falsely claimed to be her father.
The Prosecutor said that the girl's pregnancy was aborted without her consent and that she was told that if she disclosed the situation to anybody that she would die.
The accused persons pleaded not guilty to the charge and Shuairbu Ahmed granted them bail in the sum of N5 million each with one surety in like sum.
Ahmed ordered that the surety must be civil servant of Grade Level 14 or a business man with landed property of N5 million that resided within FCT and adjourned the case to July 25, for hearing.
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