Girl Drags Stepfather (PASTOR) To Police Station Over Rape.

The Lagos State Police Command has arrested a 42-
year-old cleric, Pastor Chidiebere Ikpa, for allegedly
raping his stepdaughter, Ngozi (pseudonym), in the
Surulere area of the state.


Ikpa, who denied the allegation, told Punch Metro
that it was a neighbour, whom he identified only as
Richard, that defiled the 14-year-old girl, but he
decided not to report the matter to the police
because he (Ikpa) had a forgiving character.


However, Ngozi, a Senior Secondary class 2 pupil,
who eventually reported the incident to the police
last Friday, January 15, insisted that she was raped by
the pastor on several occasions.


She added that
whenever she told her mother about
it, she usually shouted her down, and refused to take
any action on the matter. It was learnt that Ikpa, who
hails from the Bende Local Government Area of Abia
State, was arrested by policemen from the Isokoko
division, while Ngozi was taken for medical
examination at the Mirabel Centre, Ikeja.


The test reportedly confirmed that the girl’s private
parts had been “tampered with.”


A police source said that Ngozi reported that Ikpa had
allegedly been sleeping with her since she was 10
years old and was the one who deflowered her.
She said, “The victim claimed that the suspect
deflowered her when she was 10 years. He had
allegedly been s3xually molesting the girl since that
time.

 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 said 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 Ngozi, then it is Richard, not me.


“It is a mystery to me that the girl is claiming that I
slept with her. When we caught Richard and
confronted him sometime last year, he started
begging. The mistake I made was that I did not report
to the police. My wife got furious and said we must
report the matter to the police, but the man started
begging, sending text messages to me. I forgave him.
I am a pastor. I was working under a church, but since
I moved to this area, I have not pastored any church.”


The victim, Ngozi, told Punch that Ikpa was lying and
he had slept with her on several occasions. She said,
“The first time that he would rape me was about five
years ago. My mother sent me to give food to him in
his own house. I was then staying in my father’s
house. That was when he took advantage of me and
raped me.


“The man he mentioned is not my boyfriend. Richard
was the man I reported to when I told my mother
about the rape and she did not believe me. Richard
advised me to leave everything to God. 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 Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, SP
Dolapo Badmos, confirmed the pastor’s arrest. She
said, “The pastor’s arrest is confirmed. He was
transferred from FESTAC to the Isokoko division for
prosecution.”