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The Ogun police command says it has arrested a 43-year-old pastor, identified as Clinton John, for allegedly raping a 16-year-old girl at Agbado area in Ota LGA of the state.

Omolola Odutola, spokesperson of the command, announced the development on Saturday.

Odutola said the victim’s family reported the alleged rape case to the Agbado divisional police station, adding that the suspect confessed to committing the crime during interrogation.

“The family reported that their daughter had been repeatedly treated for recurring infections and exhibited frightful tendencies that made them suspect that she might have been involved in sexual intercourse,” NAN quoted the police spokesperson as saying.

“But she was concealing the identity of the person as the parents needed to persuade her and she later confessed that one John, a pastor of Mega Healing Ministry, had fiercely been having carnal knowledge of her, since November 2022.

“Their daughter further stated that the pastor threatened to kill her if she ever revealed the cagey affair to anyone.”

Odutola added that the victim has been issued with medical forms for treatment and examination, while the suspect would be transferred to the state criminal investigation department at Eleweran in Abeokuta, the Ondo capital, for discreet investigation.