Dr Albert Odulele
Evangelical pastor, Pastor Albert Odulele founder of Glory House International church based in East London has been sentenced to 8 months in prison, after admitting in court to assaulting a 14-year-old boy and a 21-year-old youth pastor.
Via The Independent
The court heard how Odulele, founder of the Glory House International Pentecostal church, would frequently share hotel beds while travelling the world with a large entourage of security and pastors.
In around 2003, he was watching television with a boy over whom he had “assumed paternal influence”. When the boy fell asleep he put his hand in his underwear and fondled him. The boy said he did not know what to do and was too scared to move. Odulele’s wife was pregnant with their daughter at the time.
The boy was left “traumatised” and lost interest in academic work, before telling his mother about the abuse. When confronted by the boy’s mother in spring last year, Odulele fell to his knees, crying and apologising, prosecutor Tom Nicholson told the court.
In 2004, he touched the inner thigh of a pastor while sharing a bed with him and another man at the Dartford Bridge Hilton. The man brushed off the advances of Odulele, the “guiding light and father figure” of the church, before being touched again, the court heard. Mr Nicholson said a number of church members challenged Odulele about his behaviour and appealed to a bishop of the church – without success.
Sentencing him, His Honour Judge Charles Byers described the attacks as “opportunistic”. Judge Byers said: “You were a man in a position of trust who was well-respected. People turned to you for advice and no doubt for comfort.” He added that Odulele was an “intelligent man” who would have known his behaviour “was wrong”.
In a pre-sentencing report Odulele, a trained medical doctor, said: “I am ashamed of my behaviour as homosexuality is at odds with my religious beliefs.” “I am extremely distraught and upset at the hurt and distress I have caused the victims.” Craig Crosbie, defending, said Odulele, the son of a Nigerian civil servant who came to Britain in 1986, has no previous convictions. Continue Reading….
Did nobody think to question the whole sharing of beds situation? What was the three in a bed nonsense at the Hilton Dartford Bridge Hotel all about???
Also travelling the world with a large entourage and security… erm did this pastor think he was Prince???
What a complete and utter farce!
I feel sorry for the victims who trusted and looked up to this man, and his wife and children.
What will happen to Glory House International now?
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Janice, your commentary kills me.
“Did nobody think to question the whole sharing of beds situation? What was the three in a bed nonsense at the Hilton Dartford Bridge Hotel all about???
Also travelling the world with a large entourage and security… erm did this pastor think he was Prince???”
Hurry and get your TV or radio show…I beg!
lol i love the comments.lol! But its sad that he is still lying. He knew what he was doing… But what got me was the fact that he only got 8 months!!! Now way would he only got 8 months here…
@Moreno
I’m thinking that maybe because there was no penetration involved. Had there been the sentence would have been longer.
Penetration or not those boys are traumatized by his behavior. Money talk bull**** walk, the UK is no different.
What will happen to Glory House International now? They’ll rebuke the devil for taking over their pastor, preach about forgiveness and not judging other, leave it to God and they’ll move on like nothing happen. It’s a mega church he’s only one person the rest of the empire will continue business as usual.
There was a time when people look to the church and their leaders for guidance and support, these days the church and their pastor is just as bad as the hooligans on the street.
He should have hooked up with “bishop” Eddie Long where his advances would have more than been accepted. The institutional church beast raises its dirty head. I once attended a church where the pastor was beating up his wife and having an affair with a woman who was dealing with some of the administrative aspects of the church. When the affair and his physical abuse was finally exposed, he still had die hard followers who still defended him to the hilt and even threatened folks who criticised what he had done.
This sort of thing happens all the time in the institutional church beast system………and you thought that it was just the catholic branch of the beast that was a threat to yourselves and your children? My advice, stay out of all of these churches, they are all dangerous. Predators lurk in all corners.