Pastor nabbed for running underage prostitution cartel inside church

Idowu Olupinla, a 54-year-old pastor and founder of Cherubim and Seraphim Church, Ijoko-Ota, Ogun State, has been arrested at her church premises, by law enforcement in Ogun State, for allegedly operating a prostitution cartel with teenagers.

The authorities said she specialised in arranging male s3x customers for the teenage girls, aged 14 to 16. Three of girls were rescued. The Commissioner of Police in Ogun, Ahmed Ilyasu, said the victims have been taken fully to a hospital.

He explained Olupinla would soon be charged to court for human trafficking and child abuse. Among the victims, said lots of the girls were from broken homes and sought a spot to remain before they were lured into prostitution.

The 16-year-old said she lived with her for around a year along side about 9 other girls. Her words:

“We are about 10 with Mama, and she always arrange men for us to have sex. She created apartment within the church premises, where the men sleep with us. We charge N500 per sex in which Mama will collect N300 and give us N200.”

She added that every girl makes on average of N1,500 each day inclusive of Olupinla’s commission, noting that many of the girls had multiple abortions in order to continue residing in the church and that she has already had 5 abortions.