PASTOR SENTENCED T0 TWO LIFE TERMS FOR RAPE OF CHILDREN
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The Pretoria High Court sitting in Benoni Magistrate’s Court, sentenced Pastor Lucky Mfanivele Magagula aged (36) to two life terms for rape, exposing children to pornography, sexual assault, exposing his genitals to children and sexually grooming six minor children aged three, four, six, eight and nine years old.
Magagula is a Pastor of Itshe Lengumbi Church, in Barcelona, a small community where all his victims reside.
Judge Jay Monyemangeni found him guilty of three counts of rape, five counts of exposing children to pornography, six counts sexual assult, four counts of exposing genitals to children and sexually grooming on the 5th of August 2022.
Advocate Juliet Makgwatha says” Magagula was a pastor in the community and the children trusted him” he furthermore says” such perpetrators are meant to be taught a lesson not to destroy the society”.
