50 year-old Pastor, Emmauel Mathew who is the General Overseer of The Choice Bible Church, Mpape, and proprietor of the primary school where his victims (three primary school pupils) attended, was arraigned on a six-count charge of rape of the three pupils of the school on Tuesday 30th April, 2013 before
Justice Husseini Baba-Yusuf of the FCT High Court.
He was accused of having carnal knowledge of two seven-year-old
pupils and a nine-year-old on different occasions in his school office
without their consent, thereby committing an offence punishable under
Section 283 of the Penal Code.
Mr. Mathew pleaded not guilty to the three-count charge, while the
presiding judge ordered the prosecuting counsel to amend the remaining
three-count charge against the accused.
The prosecutor, Stalley Nwodo, urged the court to fix a date for the amendment of charges.
Mr. Baba-Yusuf granted the prosecutor’s application and adjourned the
matter to May 8 for amendment of charges and re-arraignment of the
accused.
Penal code under which he was arraigned reads:
Whoever has canal intercourse against the order of nature with any
man, woman or animal shall be punished with imprisonment for a term
which may extend to 14 years and shall also be liable to fine’’.
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