Published on 10/26/2023 at 1:36 p.m. by Linda Manga
The name Jean Yves Boussougou. Pastor of a revival church located in Alenakiri, was arrested for sexual assault on minors under 18 years old.
According to the Gabon Review website, the man was arrested and detained last Monday at the Judicial Investigation Police. After forty years, this shepherd would rather be a wolf enchanted by lambs. According to the judicial police officer (OPJ) speaking on Radio Gabon, on October 4, 2023 the judicial investigation police headquarters was seized of several cases of sexual abuse of minors at this so-called church. wake-up call. An investigation was therefore opened by the “Morals, protection of women and minors” service for jurisdiction against the pastor “for acts of rape of minors under the age of 18 and sexual assault committed against several young ladies».
«We did question him about rape of minors under 18 and sexual assault. The accused partially admits the facts. He claims to have indeed had sexual relations with victims», Confided the OPJ. The affair broke out in the country after the publication on the web, by the eldest of two of the victims, also a member of this church. The latter, who called on other victims to file complaints, also assured that the pastor would have “confessed to raping little boys“. Married and father of six children, he was consecrated pastor in 2011 in this church created in 2008 and has been engaging in these immoral practices since 2015 or more.
Approving silence, unfortunate complicity, abdication in the face of immoral acts?
Of some beauty, the pastor at “inflamed libido» claims that his victims were consenting since they fell under his spell. According to the elder of the two victims, several faithful and pastors were informed of the practices of Jean Yves Boussougou, but always preferred to remain silent. Approving silence, unfortunate complicity, abdication in the face of immoral acts? These pastors would plead the cause of their accomplice by asking certain victims to withdraw their complaints so that his sentence could be reduced. “He must pay for what he did. We have forgiven his act, but we want justice to be done», Estimates the elder of the two victims according to whom Jean Yves Boussougou killed the faith of his faithful.
«Today, there is a little girl who says she no longer knows how she is going to get closer to God. She is afraid of talking to pastors. She is afraid to enter a church», she commented, questioning the nature of her actions. Vicious delirium or occult practices? Laboratory assistant at the National Social Security Fund (CNSS), Pastor Jean Yves Boussougou could find himself in prison after his appearance before the prosecutor on October 25. At least that is what his victims want alongside those who call for the closure of his church. This could relaunch the debate about charlatans and other false pastors who exploit the faith of their faithful. Even so, others might see it as “a test» what is going through «the man of God».
Source: Gabon Review
