A choirmaster, Adewale Babalola, has been arraigned before a Yaba Chief Magistrate’s Court in Lagos for raping a 16-year-old chorister.
Babalola, 36, who lives on Maxwell Ijeh Street in Aguda, Surulere, Lagos, is being tried for alleged unlawful sexual intercourse.
The Nation reports that, Prosecuting Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Godwin Anyanwu said the accused took undue advantage of his relationship with the teenager as her choirmaster at the Christ Our Light Glory Church, Sanya in Surulere, to commit the crime.
“The girl told her father, who is also an evangelist in the church that the accused lured her into his room and forcefully raped her.“The father reported the matter to the General Overseer of the church, but no action was taken which compelled the victim’s father to report the matter at the police station,” Anyanwu said.
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