Sect leader rapes teen to 'save her from Satanism'

A 33 year old apostolic faith sect leader allegedly raped a member of his church after telling her it would save her from becoming a Satanist.

Greatness Tapfuma allegedly told the girl (16) that if she did not consent to sexual healing, her father would die before the end of the year.

He appeared before Western commonage Provincial magistrate Willard Maphios Moyo charged with rape.

Tapfuma was not asked to plead and was remanded out of custody to March 2 on $300 bail.
The prosecutor, Mufaro Mageza said sometime in October last year, Tapfuma invited the girl to his house and proposed love to her.

He said the girl turned down his proposal, but he hatched a plan to get into her panties by preying on her belief in God.

Tapfuma allegedly told the girl that she needed to pray with him as he had been shown in a vision that her father would die before the end of 2014.

The court heard he invited her to his house and told her he needed to use his p*nis to effect sexual healing as she was possessed by a particularly stubborn evil spirit.

The girl refused but Tapfuma allegedly went on to rape her three times.

He allegedly told her sexual healing was needed, claiming he had just seen in another vision that without the healing, the girl would be initiated into Satanism by the end of the same year.

The girl turned him down but he allegedly raped her again saying he was not enjoying it but was doing it to save her father.

Tapfuma allegedly raped the girl a third time saying the stubborn nature of the demons required him to do so.

The girl told her mother after Tapfuma released her and a police report was made leading to his arrest.