{"id":154426,"date":"2025-03-09T09:47:03","date_gmt":"2025-03-09T08:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/court-jails-pastor-10-years-for-defiling-minor-in-abia"},"modified":"2025-03-19T10:43:53","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T09:43:53","slug":"court-jails-pastor-10-years-for-defiling-minor-in-abia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/court-jails-pastor-10-years-for-defiling-minor-in-abia","title":{"rendered":"Court jails pastor 10 years for defiling minor in Abia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>A Magistrate Court in Umuahia North Magisterial District has sentenced a 40-year-old Pastor Uche Arua Kalu to 10 years imprisonment without an option of fine for defiling a 4-year-old girl in Amaogudu Abiriba, Ohafia Local Government Area of Abia State.<\/p>\n<p>The judgment was delivered on Friday, March 7, 2025, by Onuoha U.C. after the defendant pleaded guilty to the crime.<\/p>\n<p>He was charged under the Violence Against Prohibition Act 2019.<\/p>\n<p>The defendant, before receiving the sentence, begged the court for leniency, claiming that he did not know what pushed him to commit the crime.<\/p>\n<p>It would be recalled that the mother of the abused girl, Mrs Ugo Enyinnaya had, while appearing on an ABN TV Podcast Talk Make I Talk, narrated how Pastor Uche Arua, who works in church in Abriba, lured her daughter of four years (name withheld) to his house and allegedly had carnal knowledge of the kid.<\/p>\n<p>Mrs Enyinnaya said that the incident happened on October 24, 2024.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. 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