Founder of Sotitobire Praising Chapel, Prophet Babatunde Alfa and five others have been sentenced to life imprisonment over the disappearance of Gold Kolawole, a toddler from his church.
Other defendants jailed include Omodara Olayinka, Margaret Oyebola, Grace Ogunjobi, Egunjobi Motunrayo and Esther Kayode.
They were jailed on Tuesday by Justice Olusegun Odusola of the Ondo State High Court, Akure on a two count charges bordering on kidnapping, aiding and abetting to kidnap.
Gold was declared missing on November 10, last year, after his mother, Modupe Kolawole, dropped him at the children section of the church. He has since not been seen.