According to a report by Punch, a former Catholic nun allegedly dismissed by her congregation for reporting a case of sexual harassment against her superior has revealed her encounter with a priest who also made sexual advances at her.
Kinse Annastasia recounted in an interview with Sunday PUNCH what the priest reportedly told her.
She said, “He told me he wanted to be the first man to sleep with me,” adding, “I was shocked beyond words. This was a priest, someone I should have trusted.”
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Annastasia, 29, from Plateau State, joined the Congregation of Mother of Perpetual Help of the Archangels Sisters under the Auchi Diocese after years of service and study. But her dedication to religious life ended abruptly in 2025 after she reported her head of department at Veritas University, Abuja — a Catholic-owned institution — for sexual harassment.
She said she had presented recordings and video evidence to back her complaint, but instead of support, she was interrogated and humiliated. “The panel made me feel like a criminal,” she said. “They seized my phone, ignored my evidence, and spoke to me as if I had done something wrong.”
The situation worsened when her congregation failed to protect her. According to Annastasia, Church authorities later sent a priest who had previously made a pass at her to “counsel” her. “That broke me,” she said. “I felt unsafe and betrayed.”
Her frustration and despair culminated in a social media post expressing her pain, which Church authorities later described as apostasy — a claim she insists was a distortion. “It was not a rejection of faith,” she said. “It was a cry for help.”
Annastasia said that when she returned to her convent, she found her name erased from the community register, her belongings dumped outside, and her religious habit confiscated. “That was the moment I knew they wanted me gone completely,” she said.
Despite the emotional toll and the physical strain from an earlier spinal injury, she says her faith remains unbroken. “What failed me wasn’t God,” she said quietly. “It was the system that protects the powerful and abandons the weak.”
She believes her story is not unique and hopes her voice will encourage others to speak out. “There are many women suffering in silence,” she said. “If I can speak for even one of them, then everything I’ve endured won’t be in vain.”