Court sentences Ekiti prophet to life imprisonment for using spiritual healing on barren woman

An Ekiti State High Court sitting in Ado Ekiti, the state capital, on Thursday sentenced a cleric, Prophet Olakanye Oni, to life imprisonment for allegedly hypnotising and raping a barren woman, a development that reportedly led to her death.

A self-acclaimed prophet lured the victim into his room, spread a white cloth on her and raped her.

Newsflash Nigeria understands that the victim had visited Prophet Oni for spiritual healing before he took advantage of the situation.

The prosecution team led by the Director of Public Prosecutions, Ministry of Justice, Ekiti State, Mr Julius Ajibare, said that “the prophet, sometimes in March 2017, invited one Omowale Gbadamosi from Lagos to Ado Ekiti on the pretence that he (the cleric) had solution to her barrenness.

“On getting to his church at Palace of Mercy, Mathew Street, Odo Ado Area, Ado Ekiti, he collected a sum of N52,000 from the victim.

“He hypnotised the victim and lured her into his room. He, thereafter, spread a white cloth on her and raped her.

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“The convict used white handkerchief to clean the victim’s private part and inserted a substance believed to be potash into her vagina.

“The victim’s vagina got decayed as a result of the substance inserted into it by the cleric and this resulted into the victim’s eventual death.”

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The prosecution called six witnesses to prove the case, while the defence counsel, Chris Omokhafe, called the convict and one other person as witnesses.

In his judgement, Hon. Justice Abiodun  Adesodun held that the prosecution proved the case beyond reasonable doubt.

Justice Adesodun pronounced the defendant guilty of the offence of manslaughter and sentenced him to life imprisonment.

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