By our reporter|An Ondo State High Court on Tuesday sentenced the Founder of Sotitobire Praising Chapel, Pastor Samuel Babatunde, to life imprisonment over the “disappearance” of a one-year-old boy, Gold Kolawole, in his church.
The little boy was abducted by an unknown person during the church service at the children section of Sotitobire Praising Chapel, located at Oshinle Quarters in Akure, the state capital, in November 2019.
The development led violent protest in Akure after news filtered that the corpse of the missing one-year-old was allegedly found inside the church premises.
The prophet was then taken into the custody of the Department of State Service (DSS) for questioning and eventually arraigned in a margistrate on six counts charge.
The matter was later transferred to the state High Court.
Delivering his judgement on Tuesday, Justice Olusegun Odusola convicted the defendants, having found them guilty of two counts of kidnapping, and aiding and abetting to kidnap “based on the circumstantial evidence” presented by the prosecution.
As at the time of this report, the whereabouts of the one-year-old boy remains unknown.
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