Yemi Awolola, a deaconess with the Living Faith Church also known as Winners' Chapel, who brutalised a 14-year-old girl put in her care with a hot kni
Yemi Awolola, a deaconess with the Living Faith Church also known as Winners’ Chapel, who brutalised a 14-year-old girl put in her care with a hot knife and gas lighter in her genital area, has pleaded guilty to the charges against her.
Awolola, a staff of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation had inserted a stick in the girl’s vagina. She was arraigned on Monday at the Magistrate Court 3, Ibrahim Taiwo Road, Kaduna, on charges of battery and sexual assault.
Justice Shittu granted bail in the sum of N700,000 to Awolola’s two children, who are also named as accomplices in the matter, but denied the woman bail. Her son, who is also complicit in allegedly abusing Princess, has fled to Lagos after escaping police arrest.
The presiding judge has adjourned the case until August 27 for further hearing while remanding Awolola at the Kaduna Correctional Center.
The victim, identified as Princess was said to taken from the Internally Displaced Peoples camp, Kajuru in the Kauru Local Government Area of Kaduna State after much pleading from her parents.
It was gathered that the victim was handed over to the deaconess with promise that she would go to school.
There was no concrete detail regarding why the woman battered the teenager. But a source stated thus “she was accused of putting a knife on a burner or stove and when it’s hot, she placed it on her face.”
