<p><strong>OBANDE FESTUS OGBUINYA, J.C.A. (Delivering the Leading Judgment): </strong>This appeal queries the correctness of the decision of the High Court of Ondo State, sitting in Akure (hereinafter addressed as the lower Court), Coram judice: S. A. Bola, J., in Charge No. AK/142C/2016, delivered on 19th June, 2017. Before the lower Court, the appellant and the respondent were the accused person and the complainant respectively.</p><p>The facts of the case, which transformed into the appeal, are submissive to brevity and simplicity. The appellant was a self-ordained prophet of the Celestial Church of God, Kaduna, who came for a 3-day revival at the Celestial Church of God, Olorunsogo Parish, Oda Road, Akure. One Olumide Olalekan Oladapo, the victim, was a member of the church who attended the revival. On 9th December, 2015, at about 11am, the appellant lured Olumide Olalekan Oladapo to a stream at Apomu, along Ondo Road, Akure, for a bath of spiritual cleansing. While Olumide Olalekan Oladapo was naked in the…</p>