Pastor rapes teenager who volunteered to massage his ''aching waist''(Photo)

The General Overseer of Agape Baptist Church, Pastor Oprite
Amakiri, has been arrested in Rivers State.


The 50-year-old randy pastor confessed to how he deceived a
member of his church and raped her 18-year-old sister before
he was exposed and dragged to the police.


Amakiri was said to have told about 200 members of his
church that he had been battling waste pain for the past two
years and stressed that God told him that a girl between the
age of 12 and 18 years old would be needed to massage his
waist for him to be healed,Punch reports.


However, the gullible members of the church did not see
anything wrong in the randy pastor’s ‘prophecy’ and one of
them, the elder sister to the victim (names withheld) decided
to make available her 18-year-old sister for the massage job.


The pastor (Amakiri) decided to visit the home of his victim’s
sister to get massaged while the owner of the house (victim’s
sister), who is a roadside trader, had gone to do her petty
trading.


It was learnt that the pastor raped the girl on three occasions
and threatened to deal with her if she dared expose his deeds
to anyone, including her elder sister.


Not satisfied with the development, the victim (names
withheld) slammed the door against the pastor on the
fourth day and stopped him from gaining access into
the room for another round of sex.


Angered by the girl’s effrontery, the randy pastor put a
call across to the elder sister of the victim and told her
that the 18-year-old girl was trying to stop ‘God’s
prophecy’, an action that forced the naïve victim’s
sister to abandon her wares and rushed home with
dissatisfaction.


On getting to her house, the rape victim told her sister how she
had been defiled on four occasions by the pastor. It was at that
point that the trader raised the alarm and Pastor Amakiri was
arrested.


Speaking with newsmen, the errant pastor confessed to the
crime and said nobody should blame it on the devil and that
he (Amakiri) should take the blame because he actually
planned and executed the rape of the teenager.


“The elder sister to the girl I raped is a choir member of
my church. It was after choir practice one Thursday
that I informed the sister that I would like to visit her
house for a serious discussion and she obliged me.


“The following day, I paid her the visit and requested
that she allow her younger sister (his victim), to
massage my waist, that I had been having ache on it in
the past two years and every treatment, drugs and
injection had failed.


“She then went and discussed with the younger sister,
who accepted to help me. So, we had the first massage
treatment that day while the elder sister was around
and nothing happened between me and the little girl.


“On Saturday, I called her to inform her that I was
coming back for the treatment, I got there while she
was about to leave for choir practice in the church.
While the massage was going on, I had the (sexual)
urge. So, I had carnal knowledge of the girl. I have
successfully raped her three times,” Amakiri, whose
church is located in Rumuolumeni, added.


The cleric, whose wife is a health worker in Degem Local
Government Area of the state, explained that he could not tell
his wife to massage him because she only came home from her
work place once a week when she was off duty.
Amakiri, who has four children, stated that it was during his
fourth attempt at raping the girl that he met a brick wall and
since then, he had not regained his freedom.


He said, “It was the fourth time that she (victim) locked
the gates against me. So, I had to call her sister on her
cell phone and she rushed to the house from her shop
and began to interrogate the girl on why she did not
want to massage my waist again and she disclosed
what has been happening between us.


“I sincerely regret my actions. It is like the ground
should open up and swallow me. Don’t blame the devil
for what has happened, blame me because I was
tempted and I did it,” he added.


The victim, who simply gave her name as Goodness, told
newsmen that she never knew the pastor that was respected so
much by members of his church could think of having sexual
intercourse with her.


She said the pastor had warned her on each occasion he
forcefully had carnal knowledge of her not to disclose what
happened to anybody, including her elder sister.


“I was in the house when the pastor came and asked me
to massage his waist. On the first day, I massaged him,
nothing happened between us. But on the second day,
while I was massaging him, he began to touch my
breast and raped me.


“I tried to escape, but he held me and warned me never
to tell anybody what he did to me. He has raped me
three times,” the victim said, adding that she used
vegetable oil to massage the pastor’s waist.


Speaking on the matter, the State Police Public Relations
Officer, Mr. Ahmad Mohammad, said the randy pastor had
confessed to raping the girl on several occasions, adding that
Amakiri would be charged to court at the end of an ongoing
investigation into the matter.