Pastor Feyi Daniels Sentenced To Life For Rape

  Pastor Faye Daniels,  founder of  I  Reign Christian  Ministries,  has been sentenced to life imprisonment by a High Court  in Ikeja, Lagos State for  rap!ng  a church member. 

  The  court presided over  by  Justice  Rahman  Oshodi  also  on Friday, January 26,  2024, found him guilty of s£xual assault and sentenced him to three years imprisonment.  However, the sentences  should be imposed  concurrently.  

 The court also ruled that his name should be  added to  the  sex offenders registry  maintained by Lagos State. 

  Daniels was  charged  by the Lagos  State  government  with  three amended  charges of assault,  attempted  assault  and  s£xual assault against  church members.  The pastor was accused of  s£xually abusing  three  church members at his  home  in Lekki and on  the premises of  his church  in Ikeja. 

  He was  detained  on April 17, 2023,  on suspicion of r@ping  two  church members.  

 On May 29, 2023,  the  23-year-old  deputy priest  told  the  Ikeja  S£xual Offenses  and Domestic  Violence  Court in  Lagos  that  Faye had assulted  her twice. 

  Under the leadership of the  Lagos State  Attorney General, Mr.  Babajide Boye, she told the court that she  is  an  associate  pastor of  the 1 Reign  Christian  Ministries established  by the bishop.  

 According to her, she  came to know  the bishop on May 28, 2018, when  a  friend  of hers  invited her to a church  program  in  Akumba Akoko,  Ondo State, where the  bishop was serving.  She said  she became a member of the church and  was promoted  to  associate pastor after a program titled "Strictly Supernatural."  

 She said  the bishop, whom she  considered  her spiritual father,  r@ped  her  on June 21, 2020  at  his bishop's  residence in Ikota Villa Estate, Lekki, Lagos  State.