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	Priest's Sodomy Trial Underway in Moshi The Guardian August 17, 2011 http://www.ippmedia.com/frontend/index.php?l=32357 The Moshi Resident Magistrate's Court has started hearing a sodomy case facing a Catholic Church priest for Kilema Parish Stanslaus Sala. State Attorney Abdallah Chavula claimed in court that the prosecution side would bring in four witnesses to testify against the cleric. Furthermore, the prosecutor said that according to the country's laws, the hearing of the case would be done in camera. Witnesses lined up to testify, include Lego village local government leaders – where the incident reportedly happened, a parish watchman who was the first person to be told about it, and a father of the sodomised minor, who reported the mate to the police. According to the state attorney, the sodomised 16-year-old minor worked as a caretaker of livestock at them parish, while waiting for results of last year's National Standard Seven examinations. The priest is alleged to have committed the offence on October 30, last year at 8pm. Prosecution said that on the incident day, the Catholic cleric allegedly took the boy to a nearby bush where he sodomised. After committing the offence, the state attorney told the court, the pastor gave the boy 'a rosary' and a piece of soap so that he could 'shut his mouth.' The hearing was adjourned to September 14, this year.
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