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Anambra Priest remanded for allegedly impregnating teenager

OsunDailyBy OsunDailyNovember 26, 2023No Comments3 Mins Read
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A Catholic Priest in Anambra State, Rev. Fr. Nwaigwe Stephen, has been remanded for allegedly raping and impregnating a teenager, Daily Trust reports.

Nwaigwe was remanded in prison till December 6, 2023, by an Awka Chief Magistratesโ€™ Court, also known as the Children, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence Court, Anambra State.

He is alleged to be among some priests expelled by a Religious Congregation in Orlu, Imo State, known as the Two Hearts of Love Congregationโ€ (Ugwu Nso) in 2018 for alleged misconduct.

The magistrate ordered the prosecutor to transmit the original case file to the office of the Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice of Anambra State.

According to the report, the priest was also accused of forcefully taking the pregnant minor to Benin City, Edo State, where she was delivered of her baby.

However, a police investigation revealed that the whereabouts of the said baby is still unknown.

The offence of having sexual intercourse with a minor is punishable under section 34(2) of the Childโ€™s Rights Law of Anambra State, 2004.

The priest had reportedly met the teenager at the St. Albert The Great Catholic Church Parish, Obosi, Anambra State, where he was invited for a religious church programme.

While answering questions in court during remand proceedings on Monday, November 20, 2023, the victim claimed the priest took her from her parents to live with him when she was 14 years old, promising to sponsor her education while she equally served as his cook.

She stated that not long after she moved into the priestโ€™s house, he started forcing himself sexually on her, saying he continued the act until she became pregnant at the age of 17.

The minor further stated that when she informed the priest about her pregnancy, the priest took her from Ihiala Anambra State, where they lived, to somewhere in Benin City, Edo, to the house of a man and woman whom the priest introduced to her as his brother and brotherโ€™s wife.

โ€œBut when I gave birth to my baby at a native birth attendantโ€™s house in Benin City, I was told that the baby died and when I made efforts for them to show me the dead baby, they said the baby had been buriedโ€.

When the court asked if she had been gang-raped before, the minor noted, โ€œWhile on our way to Benin City, father told me to say that I was gang-raped. But I have never been raped before, except the ones he (father) did to me in his houseโ€.

Also, during remand proceedings, the Police prosecutor informed the court that there was probable cause to order the remand of the priest; witnesses were bound over to appear before the High Court to give evidence, whenever the case would be mentioned.

The defence counsel applied for bail of the defendant and also prayed the court to grant bail to the priest in the most liberal terms; assuring the court that Nwaigwe would never jump bail, if granted.

But the police prosecutor prayed the court to refuse bail to the clergyman, stating that the case before the court was an offence against a minor who was supposedly under the spiritual guardianship of the defendant.

The presiding Chief Magistrate, Genevieve Osakwe, while ruling on the bail application, stated that the case before the court was an offence punishable with life imprisonment, regretting that the offence of rape against minors was becoming rampant in society.

Osakwe warned that the court would not fold its hands to watch the society decay.


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