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Conviction Christian institutions & contexts Evangelical, Pentecostal, and independent Omuo-Ekiti, Ekiti State, Nigeria · 2024

Nigeria: Winners Chapel (Living Faith Church Worldwide) pastor convicted of raping a 12-year-old congregant at his vicarage

Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

pastor, Winners Chapel (Living Faith Church Worldwide), Omuo-Ekiti parish

Organization

Winners Chapel (Living Faith Church Worldwide)

Spiritual nexus

The victim's family sent her, unsupervised, into the pastor's private vicarage precisely because he was their church's pastor — a role that generated the household-helper errand and the trust that made a 12-year-old's solitary night visits unremarkable. That standing, not any independent relationship, created the opportunity his sedation and assault exploited.

  • Pastoral or clerical authority

Evidence structure

Proceedings

  1. 2024-06-13 · trial and sentencing

    Ekiti State High Court, Ado-Ekiti (Hon. Justice O.I.O. Ogunyemi). Enoch Gbinyiam, a Winners Chapel (Living Faith Church Worldwide) pastor at Omuo-Ekiti, was convicted after a full trial of raping the 12-year-old daughter of a church member, contrary to section 2 of Ekiti State's Gender-Based Violence (Prohibition) Law, 2019. The prosecution called four witnesses and tendered two exhibits; Gbinyiam pleaded not guilty. Justice Ogunyemi held the charge proved beyond reasonable doubt and sentenced him to life imprisonment.

Documented coercion mechanisms

  • trusted access to a minor congregant via routine pastoral-household visits
  • covert sedation of the victim (drugged soft drink) to prevent resistance or disclosure

Primary record

Sources

national press sentencing report Legit.ng, 'Court sentences pastor to life imprisonment for defiling minor in Ekiti' (13 Jun. 2024).

Reports the Ado-Ekiti High Court conviction and life sentence of Winners Chapel pastor Enoch Gbinyiam for raping the 12-year-old daughter of a church member, who regularly visited his vicarage to help his wife with chores and his children with schoolwork; states he sedated her with a drugged bottle of Fanta before the assault, and cites the charge under the Gender-Based Violence (Prohibition) Law, 2019.

regional press sentencing report Ghanamma News, 'Ekiti Court Sentences Winners Pastor To Life Imprisonment For Defiling Minor' (14 Jun. 2024).

Confirms Enoch Gbinyiam of Winners Chapel Church, Omuo-Ekiti, was sentenced to life imprisonment by Hon. Justice O.I.O. Ogunyemi at the Ado-Ekiti High Court on 13/14 June 2024, names the presiding judge, states the prosecution's four witnesses and two exhibits, and confirms the not-guilty plea and conviction after trial.

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