Pastor Paid Teenage Boys To Have Sex With His Wife Multiple Times While He Masturbate

Authorities have charged Rev. Stricjavvar “Strick” Strickland of the Second Baptist Church in Kalamazoo, Michigan, with s*xually assaulting four teenage boys aged between 15 and 17 and also paying them to have s*x with his wife while he watched.

According to MLive, a probable cause affidavit that was filed at the Kalamazoo County District Court last week indicates that Strickland, 37, has been charged with 11 felonies in relation to the alleged incidents that occurred between August 2015 and August 2018. Strickland, who has served as pastor at the church since 2012 and was previously president of the NAACP Kalamazoo Chapter, is yet to turn himself in though an arrest warrant was issued for him August 21.

The accused was also allegedly engaged in similar activities with his ex-wife while they resided in Mississippi some years back.

Speaking to MLive, Strickland’s attorney, Michael Hills, said they were preparing to turn him in. He faces two counts of third-degree criminal s*xual conduct on a student as well as one on a 13 to 15-year-old. He also faces another count by force or coercion and four counts of human trafficking of a minor for commercial s*xual activity. Three more counts of child s*xually abusive activity have also been leveled against him.

“It has been two years since these allegations first came forward and Pastor Strickland has remained in contact and available. He is not running from this,” Hills said. “Pastor Strickland remains ready to turn himself in and deal with these charges accordingly.”

Per his warrant, he faces 15 years behind bars for each of the first four charges and 20 years for each of the other seven charges if found guilty, MLive reports. Kalamazoo County Assistant Prosecutor Christin J. Mehrtens-Carlin has also urged the court to bar the suspect from contacting the alleged victims, his wife Jazmonique, as well as any person under 18 years in the bond recommendation filed together with the arrest affidavit.

“Per the reports, the defendant and his wife would use their employment at Phoenix High School (in Kalamazoo) and to some extent, the defendant would use his work as a pastor, to find male teens to engage in s*xual activity with the wife, while the defendant watched and masturbated,” the bond recommendation states.

Elaborating on the allegations against the accused in the probable cause affidavit that was filed on August 18, Michigan State Police Detective Sgt. Scott Ernestes wrote two of the juveniles and one of their fathers first got in touch with him in 2018 accusing Strickland of s*xual assault against them between 2015 and 2018. They commenced investigations based on the complaint.

The juveniles said they met Strickland and his wife when they were students at Phoenix High School during the 2017-18 academic year. According to their account in the affidavit, they alleged they were each paid $100 to sleep with Jazmonique in different instances while her husband watched. Strickland also allegedly paid them $100 each for his wife to perform oral s*x on them so he could watch, MLive reports.

One of the boys was also paid to send nudes to the pastor while he also allegedly s*xually assaulted one of them on another occasion. He gave the latter money after he told him to stop.

The third victim told Ernestes during an interview in 2018 his first encounter with Strickland was in 2015 when he was 16. According to the juvenile, Strickland allegedly offered him money in exchange for nude photos, adding that the accused also performed oral s*x on him after he was coerced when he was 17. Strickland allowed him to drive his car in exchange for that.

The fourth victim told the detective Strickland allegedly paid him $200 in 2015 to sleep with his wife in their home basement when he was 15. He said he slept with Jazmonique in subsequent periods between that year and 2016.

Meanwhile, Strickland has denied any wrongdoing, telling MLive on Tuesday the charges against him are “absolutely preposterous.”

“All I can say for now is that we are prepared for this fight,” he said. “God will prevail.” The couple initially proclaimed their innocence in 2019 some days after the fourth victim was interviewed.

Open letter to Buhari: Between fact and fiction on Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu

Open letter to Buhari: Between fact and fiction

IN continuation of its campaign strategy hinged on blackmail and propagation of falsehood, the Edo State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and its 11th-hour candidate, sponsored an open letter asking President Muhammadu Buhari not to meet with Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, the party’s candidate in the September 19 Governorship election in the State.

The letter was purportedly written by ‘Concerned Edo State APC stakeholders’.

Using its well-known letter-writing tactic of putting its words into the mouths of non-existent characters portrayed either as ‘concerned citizens’ or ‘stakeholders’ as the current case manifests, the PDP argued that by meeting with Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu,

the President will “rubbish” his stance against anti-corruption because of the said N700 million case instituted in court by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, in which the candidate was named as a party.

According to the PDP, the case brought before Justice J.M. Umar of the High Court sitting in Benin City, with the suit No. FHC/BE21C/2016, against Pastor Ize-Iyamu and “four other accused persons” represents enough reason for the President to turn his back on a candidate who emerged as the state’s APC flagbearer at the successful primary election he ratified.

The meddlers also construe that on account of the above non-issues, the president should divorce himself from the candidate whom he asked all organs of the APC, at the state and national level, to offer all the required support, within the ambit of the law, to win the election.

The first pointer to the ridiculous nature of the argument, and indeed the entire affair, is that the PDP, having undergone the stress to commission the writing of the laboriously lengthy essay, carefully avoided outlining details when it came to naming all those accused in the said case.

It instead settled for the concealing “four other accused persons” line that reveals its contradiction each time it attempts to shamefully weaponise the case against Pastor Ize-Iyamu whose soaring popularity and wide acceptance in the state is responsible for their jitters and sudden interest in letter-writing and literature.

The reason for this concealment, which is already uncovered by people of Edo State who have since ignored their childish tantrums, is because the four accused persons include Mr. Tony Aziegbemi, the current Chairman of the Edo State Chapter of the PDP, and the man he succeeded in office who, interestingly, also serves as the Chairman of the PDP Campaign Council for the Edo Governorship election, Mr. Dan Orbih.

The election of Mr. Tony Aziegbemi as the Chairman of the Edo PDP and the appointment of Mr. Dan Orbih as the Chairman of the Campaign Council of the PDP came after the filing of the N700 million suit by the EFCC.

When taken to task on this by curious journalists and other interested persons, the PDP defended both appointments on the grounds that allegations and a court case are not evidence of wrongdoing because of the constitutional presumption of innocence which holds that unless convicted by a competent court, accused persons remain innocent of all charges.

Besides, the PDP argued that the said sum, in any case, was sourced from private bodies, not the coffers of government, and it was distributed to its rank and file in the state who have documents to show receipt and the expending of the sum.

Summarily, the PDP, in its own argument and robust defence of its leaders, had already vindicated Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu. This is further corroborated by the fact that although the case was for an alleged improper practice that took place in 2015 over the campaign funds of President Goodluck Jonathan when he was seeking re-election, the PDP, in 2016, unilaterally elected and backed Pastor Ize-Iyamu as its governorship candidate.

Even for a toddler, it is clear that the turn-around today, and the open letter to the President is a political reactionary attempt to cause a setback to the progressive strides of Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu and the APC to victory on the September 19 election, having won the goodwill of the people of Edo State.

Although these faceless persons claim to write on behalf of Edo people at home and in the diaspora, the mendacious claim is exposed by the deluge of endorsements received daily by Pastor Ize-Iyamu from the people of Edo State across the world,

including prominent members of Mr. Godwin Obaseki’s government and family, who are resigning in their numbers, something never seen before, because they are convinced of Pastor Ize-Iyamu’s integrity, competence and documented manifesto to move Edo State forward.

We are confident that Mr. President is well-aware of the vicious, unprincipled and mindless attacks on innocent people and their reputation by the PDP, having been a victim of their flexible principles and morality himself.

Therefore, he needs very little convincing on why their jejune demand, alongside the shameful insistence on dragging others into their campaign of calumny to hide the failure of their candidate, stems from their approaching defeat on September 19.

This clarification is made to unsuspecting members of the public who may be tricked into believing the lies of the PDP. It is a party of power-mongers pitted against themselves by their unrestrained ambitions, and still operating on the “do-or-die” politics it introduced and poisoned our polity with.

A Pastor in Ogun ‘rapes’ 10 year old girl

The Operatives of the Ogun State Police Command have arrested a 59-year-old pastor of Light Christian Church at Odeda, Ogun State, Oketokun Abiodun for allegedly defiling a ten-year-old girl (name withheld).

This is coming less than a week after a self – acclaimed pastor of the Christ Apostolic Church (CAC), Oluwakemi Oyebola was arrested for allegedly raping his own daughter and procuring abortion for her three times.

A statement issued on Tuesday by the Police Spokesman, Abimbola Oyeyemi said the latest suspect was held following a report by the father of the victim who reported at Odeda police station.

He quoted the complainant to have reported that the suspect had sent his daughter to help him bring his key from his room.

In the process, the clergyman reportedly followed the victim into the room, “pushed her into the bed, covered her mouth with his hands and forcefully had carnal knowledge of her.”

Oyeyemi said following receipt of the report, the Divisional Police Officer in charge Odeda division, Ajayi Williams detailed his detectives to the scene where the ‘randy pastor’ was promptly arrested.

“On interrogation, the pastor owned up to the commission of the crime and he is currently being detained at Odeda police station; while the victim has been taken to General hospital Odeda for medical attention,” he said.

Oyeyemi added that the Commissioner of Police, Kenneth Ebrimson had ordered the transfer of the suspect to Anti-human trafficking and child labour unit of the State criminal investigation and intelligence department for further investigation and prosecution.

RCCG Excommunicates Pastor Who Was Caught While Trying To Sleep With Member's Wife In Ondo

Gideon Bakare, a Pastor of a Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) in Akure, Ondo state capital, has been excommunicated after being caught while trying to sleep with a member’s wife.

Recall the naked Pastor was seen in a viral video, begging the family of the lady after being caught red-handed in the act.

In a statement released by RCCG spokesperson Olaitan Olubiyi on Wednesday July 8, it was gathered that Bakare was suspended for attempting adultery. He was also accused of putting the church in a bad light.

The statement read;

“The Redeemed Christian Church of God has excommunicated Mr Gideon Bakare and relieved him of all ministerial duties in the Mission.

“Bakare, who was an Assistant Pastor in the Church was recently accused of attempted act of adultery with a woman in her matrimonial home in Akure, Ondo State.

“The Church dissociated itself from such immoral act of Mr Bakare and described it as being completely contrary to the core values, doctrines, beliefs and practices of the RCCG and the undiluted word of God.

“The Church, after reviewing the report of her investigation, noted that by his conduct, Bakare has not only tainted his personal reputation but has portrayed the Church in a bad light.

”Mr Bakare has therefore been directed to return all official items in his custody and stay off all associated connections with the Mission with immediate effect.”