Shiva Linga Prayer Group based in Cote d 'Ivoire and Ghana for
defiling 8 minor girls aged between 3 and 12 years.
Pastor James Nana Akwasi Agyeman who claimed also to be a
herbalist has denied the allegations but medical examination documents
on the victims added to the docket had said otherwise. Chief
Superintendent of Police, Mrs Jessie Borquaye, Regional Coordinator of
the Domestic Violence Victims Support Unit (DVVSU), told the Ghana
News Agency that the suspect lived in both Ghana and Abidjan and
voluntarily consented to take care of the victims from their parents
who obliged as they took him to be "a man of God".
She said in December last year, one of the girls about 12 year old
girl went to the Pastor's house at St John's near Dome in Accra to
celebrate the Christmas holidays.
Mrs Borquaye said the girl revealed to her parents the ordeal the
pastor subjected her to and what the others were going through in the
hands of Pastor Agyeman.
She said two of the victims' parents immediately reported the
matter to the police of the Support Unit and investigations revealed
that the pastor was having sex with the children in his house in
turns, both in his room and in his bathhouse.
The Police have since relocated the victims from the Pastor's
house.The Regional Coordinator said during preliminary investigations
Pastor Agyeman evaded the police but after an intensive search the
police arrested him and he claimed he did not go into hiding but he
went to visit part of his church members in South Africa.Pastor
Agyeman is being processed to be put before court.
03 April 07
