UNITED KINGDOM
International Business Times
By William Watkinson
August 16, 2017
A south London pastor who blindfolded children then hit them with belts and wires while shouting “Jesus” at them has been spared jail.
Croydon Crown Court heard how Rose Amadasun, from Beauchamp Road, South Norwood,
The investigating detective said that he came up against “resistance” from the congregation “as they closed ranks to protect their religious leader” before she was convicted.
An investigation was triggered after two members of the public said they had witnessed the 49-year-old hitting children with a belt while shouting “Jesus” aggressively at them.
It was then that detectives from the Metropolitan Police’s Child Abuse and Sexual Offences Command began their investigation.
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