SOUTH AFRICA
Sunday Times
Tuesday August 16, 2005 06:01 - (SA)
A pastor from the Revival of Faith congregation in Hammanskraal has been sentenced to 15 years imprisonment for raping a member of his flock three times in one night.
The 21-year-old woman claimed her pastor promised her a Bible if she kept quiet about the incident which happened in 2002 at his Hammanskraal home.
The 28-year-old pastor, Elias Manamela, admitted to having sex with the woman but he said she gave consent.
The woman earlier testified that she was visiting Manamela and she was in his bedroom, when he pulled her onto the bed and raped her. She insisted that she did not give consent, although she did not shout for help. She said she trusted her pastor and told him she was tired and that she wanted to go home.