Sexual Molestation Among Christian Religious Leaders In Ekiti State

ABSTRACT

This study investigated sexual molestation among Christian religious leaders in Ekiti State, the study focused on the perception of the society about sexual molestation, factors responsible and consequences of sexual molestation among Christian religious leaders, structure put in place by the religious bodies and society to address this challenge and its success and ways by which sexual molestation among Christian religious lc:ider can be reel uced within the society. The population of the study constituted religious leaders and their followers in Ado and Oye Ekiti in Ekiti State, from which sample si1/.c of two hnndred (200) respondents, having an unequal representation of (50) religious leaders and ( 150) followers were selected for the quantitative research and (10) respondent forn1 the religious leader for the qualitative research. The sampling technique used was convenience sampling. Simple percentage analysis was used to analyze the quantitative data using the statistic:tl package for social sciences (SPSS) version 20, while the qualitative data was qualitatively i 11 relation to t lie research question formulated for they study. The finding from this research indicated 11 .it there is no significant relationship between Religious leader closeness to their followers and sexual molestation. The researcher therefore recommended that seminars should be org,rni7.cd on this issue in order to educate both the religious leaders and the followers on the c,111scsa nd consequences of sexual molestation and

parents should teach their children well in boll I conduct ancl dressing, especially the female must

be well thought about this because it was discovered from the research that females are the most

common victims.