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According to reports, the children range in age from five to seventeen. The incidents occurred in the Nquthu Local Municipality’s Luvisi Village. When a youngster reported the incident to his mother and supplied information about the other victims, the pastor was apprehended. Before reporting this information to the police, his mother confirmed it with other victims.
MEC for Social Development Nonhlanhla Khoza strongly criticized the pastor’s rape and abuse of children. Khoza said that the 56-year-old will be appearing in court soon. In a separate case, it was previously reported that Petros Mokoena was sentenced to ten years in prison for raping his blind neighbor, the widow of his late buddy. Mokoena was fortunate to be sentenced after the Criminal Procedures Act of 1997 was changed, according to Pinetown Magistrate Siphiwe Hlophe.
Prior to the revisions, the Act mandated a life sentence for the rape of a disabled person. Mokoena, a preacher, frequently supported his victim’s family by sending them food after his friend died. Hlophe claimed that Mokoena used not only the family’s financial plight but also the fact that he was a well-known preacher in the area.
According to the KZN Department of Social Development, the priest allegedly enticed the youngsters to watch cartoons before showing them sexual content that he watched with them. There were allegedly 11 boys and two girls. According to IOL, the pastor allegedly began molesting minors in 2021. The most recent event is claimed to have occurred on September 18, 2022.
One of the victims’ sons discovered Mokoena topless on his mother’s bed in January 2021. Mokoena allegedly offered the victims’ sons R1 000 before departing. The complete story can be found here. Colonel Thembeka Mbele, a police spokesperson, stated that the Ulundi Reginal Court sentenced well-known minister Menzi Computer Madela to prison for raping a girl in 2018 at Emabeka in Ulundi.
Mbele stated that the preacher was found raping the girl in a field in September 2018. The mother of the child reported the 47-year-old clergyman to the police. Mandela was arrested and appeared in court multiple times following an extensive investigation. Madeline, according to Mbele, has also been found unsuitable to possess a handgun.
