Nigerian Pastor jailed for 34 years for raping male and female members of his church in the UK

Michael Oluronbi, a 60-year-old Cherubim and Seraphim pastor based in Birmingham, in the United Kingdom, who raped female and male members of his church for over 20 years, has been jailed for 34 years. 

His wife, Juliana Oluronbi, 58, was also jailed for 11 years after being found guilty of three counts of aiding and abetting rape after helping arrange some of the terminations.

Last month, the Self-styled prophet was convicted by a UK court for 24 counts of child sexual abuse and rape of his congregation, while his wife, was also convicted of three counts of aiding and abetting rape.

It was revealed that he carried out some of his offenses by convincing five of his victims who attended his church, to take part in ‘spiritual bathing’, which he claimed would ‘cleanse’ them of evil spirits. 

The offences happened over a period of 20 years, at various locations in Birmingham and London.

During the trial, jurors heard Oluronbi was linked to a Christian church in Edgbaston, Birmingham, the Cherubim and Seraphim Church.

In a confession videoed last year by a victim’s family member who had confronted him, the ‘feared’ pastor is heard saying: ‘Everything was just my fault, and as I said before, I wasn’t meant to be human.

‘I wasn’t meant to live under the roof of any human being and I said that I was an animal.’