31-year-old Temidayo Akinwale, a businesswoman who is now pregnant, suffered the ugly fate when she went to the spiritualist to deliver her from strange spirits that prevented her from getting a husband.
Funny enough, in his response, Ifatade told the court that he indeed delivered her of spiritual husband. Asked if he slept with her and got her pregnancy, the spiritualist said:
"No comment." But the incident allegedly happened right inside his 'chamber' located at Ayobo in Lagos.
The accused was arraigned on a six-count charge of fraud, stealing and obtaining sex under false pretences.
Elegbeleye who is cooling his heels in prison custody, according to the police, lured his victim to a shrine and told her that he needed to perform some rituals to deliver her from spiritual husband that prevented her from getting a husband all these years.
The 65-year-old mother of the victim, Mrs. Mary Akinwale, while testifying before the court, narrated how the accused lured her daughter to his shrine, raped and impregnated her.
The distraught mother told the court that Elegbeleye prophesied to her daughter that she was possessed with a spiritual husband that would prevent her from getting married and asked her to pay some amount of money for spiritual cleansing.
She said that her daughter who was afraid of the prophesy, paid the money and was taking to a river in the midnight at Ipaja area, where she was bathed with spiritual soap, adding that after the bath, she still could not get a husband. She said the accused invited her daughter again to his shrine and rapéd her, adding that she is now pregnant.
The presiding Magistrate, O.A. Layinka granted him bail in the sum of N200,000 with two sureties. The matter was adjourned till 21 December for continuation of trial.
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