The pastor incharge of the Royal World Embassy Church, Rufus Olatunji has been remanded in jail by a court in Lagos.

Olatunji was remanded for apparently defiling and impregnating a 14-year-old church member.

The Chief Magistrate, Mrs F.M. Kayode, who did not take Olatunji’s plea, ordered that Olatunji he should be remanded at Ikoyi Correctional Centre.

Kayode then adjourned the case to March 8 for mention.

Olatunji, 45, is dealing with a two-count charge of illegal sexual intercourse and obtaining an abortion.

Earlier, the Prosecutor, Insp Kehinde Olatunde told the court that the accused committed the offenses in August 2021, at Royal World Embassy Church, Ipaja.

Olatunde declared that the accused had sexual intercourse with the lady in the Church’s store, which led to the pregnancy.

He stated that when the defendant learnt, he offer the lady a drug to end the pregnancy.

Olatunde said that the lady’s parents reported the case to the defendant and the police was apprehended.

He said the offenses contravened Sections 137 and 145( 1) of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015.

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