16 year-old Raped by a Pastor

                   
A 16 year-old female victim recounted how one Pastor Basil Princewill of Mountain Mover Fire Ministry Church, Nyanya, Abuja, poured oil on her private part and raped her, all in the guise of delivering her from from evil spirits. She told an Abuja High Court Justice, Husseini Baba-Yusuf that the Pastor told her that her father's wife was trying to kill her and that the Lord has instructed him to deliver her. The victim recounts how Pastor Basil, after asking her if she was menstruating to which she responded in the negative, told her to remove her clothes, led her into a bedroom, instructed her to close her eyes, then placed his handkerchief over her head which made her very weak.
The victim said she cried and begged Pastor Basil to stop but he refused. All she could remember was that she fainted  and woke up later to discover that she was bleeding from her private part. The victim said she was raped several times after because according to the Pastor the demons possessing her were stubborn spirits.T

he victim later discovered she was pregnant. Upon telling the Pastor, he took her to Fantana Head Medical Centre, Mararaba, Nasarawa state to have the pregnancy aborted. She recounted how the Pastor beat her and locked her in a room; giving instructions that she should not be allowed to leave until he comes for her. The case was adjourned by the Court.

For Ugandan children born of war, the struggle continues | Uganda | Children | Conflict

 KAMPALA, 7 July 2015 (IRIN) - Actual combat may have ended almost a
decade ago in northern Uganda, but for many women abducted by the rebel
Lord’s Resistance Army and the children they conceived in captivity, the
war is far from over. Sexual exploitation, beatings, stigmatization and
community rejection, lack of medical care and education, and
deprivation of land rights are among the challenges faced by those who
escaped from or were released by the LRA.


For two decades from the mid-1980s, between 10,000 and 15,000 girls
and women were abducted from their homes in northern Uganda to serve as
fighters, porters and sex slaves of LRA commanders. These forced unions
resulted in a population group often neglected by post-war recovery
programmes: children born of war.



According to a recent article
published by the International Centre for Transitional Justice (ICTJ),
“Thousands of such children exist on the margins, fathered through
sexual violence by not only the LRA, but also government forces and a
multitude of other state and non-state armed actors.”



A new report
by the Justice and Reconciliation Project, based in the northern town
of Gulu, points out that scores more women were subjected to sexual
violence and exploitations in the so-called “protected villages” where
most of the population of northern Uganda was forced to live during the
war.



“As if the original violations were not severe enough, female victims
are especially susceptible to ongoing forms of re-victimisation that
extend long after initial violations occur,” says the report, titled,
“Alone Like a Tree: Reintegration Challenges Facing Children Born of War
[CBW] and Their Mothers in Northern Uganda.”

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