AChief
Magistrates’ Court sitting in Ogbesan, Benin had on Wednesday remanded
Prophet, Benjamin Bernard, 41 years, in prison custody for alleged defilement
of his seven-year-old daughter.
The
Chief Magistrate, Mrs Taiye Omoruyi, refused to grant the cleric to bail.
The Prosecutor, Kenneth Ugiagbe, said the
pastor committed the incest against his third daughter on Jan. 26.
The cleric pleaded not guilty to the
one-count charge of defilement .
According to Ugiagbe, who led in evidence,
told the court that after defiling her daughter, Bernard used a white
handkerchief to clean her private part.
She said her father warned her not to mention
it to anyone else and threatened to kill her if she disclosed it to anybody.
However, the court adjourned the matter till
March16 for further hearing.
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