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Pastor abuses girls at gun point

by Staff Reporter
26 Apr 2016 at 07:44hrs | Views
Some girls in South Africa have revealed that a rogue pastor at Carletonville violently abused them at gun point  saying their experienced at the hands of the clergyman was horrible.

"The pastor pushed me to the bed at gunpoint and said we must perform a 'free' pornographic movie to make my friends jealous. He put his fingers inside my vagina. I pleaded with his wife to make him stop."

This was a harrowing experience of one of the three girls who were kidnapped by a rogue Carletonville pastor who also raped and assaulted them in his house.

Sowetan reported that the girls narrated their eight hours of hell in the hands of the pastor and even revealed the wounds they sustained at his hands.

On the night of April 3, the gun-toting pastor took turns raping them after assaulting them with a baton and a wire in the bedroom while his wife watched TV in the lounge.

During the ordeal the pastor threatened to shoot them and murder their families should they attempt to flee. Two of the girls are 17 and 18 years old and are members of the pastor's church in Wedela township in Carletonville.

The third victim is a 25-year-old friend of the two teenagers.

"He brought me into the room and said we must have a foursome. We refused. He forcefully penetrated me with his fingers and once he was aroused he proceeded to rape my two friends who were bleeding from being assaulted."

Earlier the pastor had locked the room and forced the girls to strip naked.

"We pleaded with his wife to help us. We could hear her laughing. He forced me to watch as he raped each of them at gunpoint. I prayed to God to spare our lives," said the 25-year-old who shook as she described their experience.

"My family was all I could think about as he was raping me. My body had been numbed from all the physical pain I had endured from him," said the younger girl.

They said at some point the pastor looked insane and was rambling on about how he'd kill them.

The pastor panicked and released the older woman after her family called and threatened to send the police to his house.

Police were later sent to the house where they rescued the two girls and arrested the pastor. The pastor faces three counts of rape and assault, two of kidnapping and one of pointing a firearm.

The girls' parents had hoped that he would help the girls with their personal problems. He also promised to give them jobs and spiritual guidance. But he soon turned into a monster.

"He would hit me with his fists and then lock me in the bedroom for days," the younger girl said.

Earlier this month the two teenage girls escaped from the pastor's house and fled to Krugersdorp. He used their older friend to track them down.

He brought all three back to his house where he allegedly assaulted and raped them.

"This horrific incident has broken our family. We trusted him with our children only to learn that we were feeding a sex-hungry monster. I've lost faith in church leaders," said the mother of one of the victims.

The victims are receiving psychological help and police are preparing them for the court case.

Source - Sowetan
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