Pastor to spend rest of life in jail for raping church member’s daughter

Justice Rahman Oshodi of the Lagos Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court, Ikeja, on Thursday, sentenced a 63-year-old pastor, Chris Mcdouglas, to life imprisonment for raping his church member’s daughter aged 18 years.

The judge sentenced Mcdouglas, a pastor at the Peculiar Generation Assembly Church, Lagos, to life imprisonment after he found him guilty of the crime.

He, however, discharged him on six out of the nine-count-charge, bordering on defilement, sexual assault, indecent treatment of a child, brought against him by the Lagos State Government.

Oshodi, in his judgment, held that the prosecution had successfully proved the charge of rape against the pastor.

He described the offence as a grave betrayal of trust that left the survivor with lasting psychological trauma.

The Judge found that the cleric, regarded within his congregation as a “spiritual father,” exploited his position of authority to sexually abuse the survivor.

According to him, the abuse is not an isolated incident but part of a pattern of manipulation and coercion.