Pastor defiled 17-year-old chorister, court told

An Ikeja S3xual Offences and Domestic Violence Court on Monday heard how a pastor, Chris Mcdouglas, allegedly defiled the 17-year-old daughter of a businesswoman.

Mcdouglas, a pastor at Peculiar Generation Assembly Church, Lagos, is facing a nine-count charge bordering on defilement and s3xual assault by penetration before Justice Ramon Oshodi.

He pleaded not guilty.

Led in evidence by the Director, Department of Public Prosecutions (DPP), Dr Babajide Martins, the businesswoman told the court that the defendant had s3xual intercourse with her daughter on different occasions between 2017 to 2020 in the guise of taking her out for gospel ministration.

The witness said that the defendant had s3x with the survivor at the back of his church, in different hotels and in her house.

She said: “Pastor Mcdouglas would come to my house and ask my daughter to follow him for ministration so as to use her talent as a chorister to bless others.

“According to my daughter, he would branch to a hotel and have s3x with her.

“When I confronted him with some leaders in the church, he said he was deceived by the devil and pleaded with me to forgive him.”

She said when confronted, the defendant cried and blamed it on the devil.