A 17-year-old girl revealed yesterday that a pastor of the Living Faith Church aka Winners Chapel lured her into drinking alcohol and thereafter took her on an ending sexual pilgrimage. The suspect, who heads the Amagba community branch of the church, Kingsley Emeka Mokwunye and his wife have been arrested by the Edo State command of the Department of State Services (DSS) for the alleged defilement of the teenager, New Telegraph reports. The pastor capitalized on his familiarity with the family to lure the teenager into sexual conduct during her parent’s absence at different hotels and even in her father’s house. The girl is the only daughter of the family and narrated how the pastor introduced her to alcohol and sex. However, a senior pastor of the Winners Chapel, who pleaded anonymity, said the church was still investigating the matter. The victim disclosed to journalists in Benin that the pastor slept with her in her father’s house, fighting tears while narrating how the illicit affair began in September last year shortly after she finished her secondary education. She narrated, “He used to call me to advise me to stay away from boys; to live a good life and always respect my parents. I took it like he was my own father that I could trust and tell him anything I want to say. “That was how he started calling me; talking to me till it got to a time he told me that he liked me. I took it as a normal thing. He started taking advantage of me. He told me I did not know what he was doing for me. “He told me not to tell my parents. He said they would not understand what he was doing. He slept with me many times including in our house when my parents were not at home. “Thinking about the thing has affected me educationally.’ I could not read. The whole thing is disturbing me. When I told his wife, she said I was lying and told me to come to their house and repeat it before her husband. “I want Pastor Kingsley to go to jail. I was always shocked anytime I am in church and see him preach. I was afraid of telling my mother what was happening.” The girl’s father, Paul Obidah, a board chairman of the Amagba branch of the church for 27 years expressed shock that a pastor he trusted so much could destroy his only daughter. He said, “I have been in the church for the past 27 years. I started the church in Kaduna State. Abioye led me to Christ. I have been in Kaduna all these years. It got to a time I decided to relocate home. We have been in Benin serving God with our heart. “Many pastors have come to the branch and gone. I see the pastors as Oyedepo, the founder of Living Faith. There was a day Pastor Kingsley came to my house, I could smell alcohol from his breath. One day, his wife came and said she wanted to see our daughter. I left her to discuss. I heard my daughter tell her she had something to tell her. The next day, the woman came and told me she had seized her husband’s phone because of the calls her husband was making to my daughter. I just said maybe it was a family friend’s matter. She said he went to pick my daughter at school, I said maybe he bought her ice cream. “I was sleeping when something struck me to ask my daughter what was happening. I asked her to open up to me. She began telling me how the pastor used to make love to her in my own house; the different hotels he took her to. She said it was a burden to her. She said she did not know what the pastor gave to her. “What I want my daughter to be, this man has destroyed her. He has brought shame to our house. That was why we cried out. He does not have children. Pastors Kingsley took detectives to all the hotels he has been taking my daughter to. I want justice to be done. I took him as my spiritual father. My family loves God but I want justice. My daughter has lost concentration. This has been a burden to her. I want the authorities to prosecute Pastor Kingsley. I have reported to head Pastor in Edo State and he said he was not in support of Pastor Kingsley.” The girl’s mother, Glory, described the entire incident as a sad and unacceptable evil, “It was my daughter who called his wife to say she had something to tell her. She had been afraid mostly seeing the man on the altar preaching that nobody can dare him. Anybody that dares him will die.”