A church pastor who is accused of raping the 18-year-old girl he was tasked with healing appeared in the Butterworth Magistrate’s Court on Monday.
The 43-year-old made a brief appearance and the matter was postponed to December 15 for a formal bail application, police spokesperson Captain Jackson Manatha said.
The man allegedly took the girl to a bridge in Butterworth last Wednesday to wash her with traditional medicine to treat her illness.
While there, he allegedly touched her genitals. No one else was at the scene, Manatha said at the time.
The man drove the teenager back to her home, only to pick her up again half an hour later. He drove her to a shack in Ibika township, Butterworth, where he told her to get undressed.
“The pastor also took off his clothes. The victim was instructed to lie on the bed. She was then allegedly raped by the suspect.”
The man took the girl home. Soon after he left, she told her sister what had happened.
A case was opened at the Msobomvu police station and the man was arrested on Friday afternoon.
Police said the man was a pastor at a Zion Christian Church (ZCC) in the area. They visited the church and received confirmation that he was a pastor there.
However, his family told police that the man had left the church a few years ago and become a herbalist.
Source: News24
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