Pastor Sentenced To Prison For Six Months For Burning Maids’ Private Part

A magistrate’s court in Kwale, Ndokwa West Local Government
Area of Delta State on Thursday sentenced a 38-year-old Pastor Ruben Okotie to
six months imprisonment for seducing his house maid with red candle.

Presiding magistrate of the Court, Chief magistrate Carl
Moeteke, who sentenced the accused, said he was found guilty with overwhelmed
evidence in a three counts of conspiracy, attempted rape and illicit sexual
act. Moeteke therefore sentenced the accused to six months without option of
fine to serve as deterrent to others. It was gathered that Pastor Okotie on the
22nd day of February 2016 in Kwale town seduced his housemaid with a red candle
after his wife had gone to visit her sick parents in a neighbouring community.

The housemaid, Helen, 13 years old and an indigene of Akwa
Ibom State, was said to have resisted the attempt by the pastor to make love to
her on her return from market where she had gone to buy food stuff and other
cooking materials.

The pastor was said to have threatened to eject her from his
house if she failed to comply. It was stated that a week after, the pastor
pounced on the maid and pushed a red candle into her private part after forcing
her into his bedroom.

He was reportedly arrested in Kwale when his wife reported
the maid’s complaints to the police.

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