Name of another pastor added to sexual offenders’ register
A pastor at the God Is Love Ministries in
Bronkhorstspruit, east of Pretoria, has become the latest man of the cloth to
be added to the National Register for Sexual Offenders.
Congolese national Bafomba Willy Emeka has been sentenced to 37 years’ imprisonment by the High Court in Pretoria after he was convicted of 19 counts of rape.
The NPA’s Lumka Mahanjana says the 48-year-old operated in and around Bronkhorstspruit, where he told his victims that he had to pray and “bless” them.
“In raping and sexually assaulting the women, Emeka would tell them that they had a problem and that he needed to pray for them and bless them in order for him to help them.
“He told one of his victims who was also assisting with baby-sitting Emeka’s children that by sleeping with him he was helping her take things that were inside her out or else she would not be able to conceive."
The offences were committed between 2015 and 2018.
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