South Africa: two life terms for a pastor who raped a fifteen-year-old fellow congregant
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pastor within the Zion Christian Church, Ermelo
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A teenage member of the congregation, silenced with a payment to her family.
- Pastoral or clerical authority
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2023-08-14 · conviction and sentence
Ermelo Regional Court, Mpumalanga, South Africa. In August 2023 the Ermelo Regional Court sentenced a fifty-one-year-old pastor to two life terms for two rapes of a fifteen-year-old girl of his own congregation committed in 2020; he had paid her brother fifty rand to keep silent.
Documented coercion mechanisms
- pastoral standing over a teenage congregant
- payment to the victim's brother to buy silence
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- national newspaper court reporting verdict and sentencing report Sowetan: 'Two life jail terms for Mpumalanga pastor'.
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- https://www.sowetan.co.za/news/south-africa/2023-08-14-two-life-jail-terms-for-mpumalanga-pastor-who-raped-15-year-old-girl/ Corpus classification: national-newspaper-court-reporting; evidentiary role: verdict-and-sentencing-report. SHA-256 f5f4b2e0fde3c12b97c6f674da169d404628a63dae7457321bf874fd42dd0394
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