Pastor Dragged to Court After R*ping Church Member and Forcing Her to Perform Oral S*x on Him (Photo)

 

50 year-old Pastor Mthuthuzeli Mnaphu of the Christ Healing Fountain Church has been found guilty on two counts of r*pe at the Parow Regional Court yesterday. The man who was arrested last year after a church member dragged him to court for r*ping her since 2009 when she was 18-years-old.

 

Giving details of the incident, Magistrate M Van Leeve said the victim befriended her attacker in 2008 when she joined his church.

“They had a good relationship and she revealed to him that she was r*ped in 2008 and he became protective over her and organised counseling for her,” she said.

 

 

But the pastor raped her and threatened her not to resist him because he was a “powerful man of God”.

“Afterwards he said she should not tell anyone as he was a man of God and she will be cursed,” said Van Leeve.

 

In 2011, Mnaphu’s driver took her to his house in Pinelands.

“She testified he told her he wanted the angels to speak through her and that he would show her how it worked,” said the Magistrate.

 

 

Van Leeve said although the victim was a single witness with only her fiancé corroborating her version, the court accepted it.

“Although emotional she was clear on how she had been groomed sexually by the accused,” she said.

 

Van Leeve then found the accused guilty and revoked his bail.

 

As some of his supporters burst out in tears, she added: “You are looking at life in prison, so you have to stay in custody.”