[ 2016-11-11 ]

Obinim charged with assault over church flogging
The founder of the International God’s Way
Church, Bishop Daniel Obinim has been charged with
assault for causing physical abuse, contrary to
section 4 of the Domestic Violence and Victims’
Support Unit (DOVVSU) Act.

He was charged with two others.

They were all granted bail at GHc10,000 with one
surety to be justified, by an Accra Circuit Court.
They are to reappear in court on November 24,
2016.

Bishop Obinim earlier this year was captured on
video thrashing two teenagers in open church for
having premarital sex, which led to the girl
getting pregnant.

The teenagers, his adopted children, were
restrained by two of Obinim’s aides in church as
he flogged them. The two have been charged with
abetment.

Bishop Obinim justified his actions quoting
Proverbs 13 versus 24 which says; whoever spares
the rod hates their children, but the one who
loves their children is careful to discipline
them.

“If it were your child, would you sit there for
them to spoil? The kids are by my side, should I
throw them out for this or what? Do not speak
about things you don’t understand.

“What would majority of Ghanaians have done in
this case? If it had been your child, who had done
something so immoral, would you have left them to
go astray – a 14 year old girl and 16 year old
boy,” he queried.

Source - Starrfm

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