Pastor cast a spell on me, says old man arrested for …defiling 12 years old

  Juliana Francis

A 67-year-old man, James Olajoyetan, arrested for defiling a 12-year-old girl, has told detectives attached to the Lagos State Police Command that he committed the act after a pastor cast a spell on him.

The suspect was said to have allegedly defiled the girl when she came to celebrate Sallah with her visually impaired grandfather at the Ejigbo area of Lagos.

Olajoyetan, a commercial cyclist, was alleged to have defiled the girl four times since she came to visit.

Olajoyetan said: “I had a disagreement with a Pastor, working with Christ Apostolic Church, Kajola. He accused me of being instrumental to his leaving the church.  Six months ago, he boasted that he would place a spiritual load on my head and ensure I was publicly disgraced. Since then, I didn’t know what came over me. They claimed I raped the girl four times, but it was only once.  My wife died in 2005. I have six children; the first is 35 years while the last is 17 years. I’m still shocked that I could lay with a child that is much younger than my last child. When she came in, I gave her N100 and she hugged me. At that point, I lost my sense of judgement.”

It was gathered that the suspect, once defiled the girl in her grandfather’s one-room apartment. He was further alleged to have gagged her to prevent her from shouting so as not to alert the blind grandfather.

Olajoyetan, a widower, at the weekend, called the survivor, pretending to send her on an errand.

The victim said: “When I went, I stood in front of his door. He told me to come inside to collect the money. When I did, he shut the door, pulled off my pants, laid me on the bed, pulled off his trouser, brought out his manhood and laid on me. While he was doing, it I wanted to shout, but he hit me several times and covered my mouth.”

A neighbour, returning from a journey, was alerted by the girl’s cry. Out of curiosity, he peeped through the window and then forced the door open. He caught Olajoyetan right in the act. He raised the alarm, attracting other neighbours, who rushed to the apartment. The perpetrator was handed over to Ejigbo Police Station.