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	Pastor Fails to Stop Sordid Story Being Told By Warda Meyer IOL August 14 2010 http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?from=rss_News&set_id=1&click_id=79&art_id=vn20100814074822802C527995 An evangelical pastor in Eerste River outside Cape Town has failed in a legal bid to prevent Die Son from publishing information about his alleged extramarital affair with an underage girl. Pastor Philip Oktober, from the Covenant Evangelical Ministries church, approached the Cape High Court earlier this month to obtain an urgent interdict against Die Son after a 22-year-old woman from Rosendal in Delft told the tabloid that she had been having sex with him since she was 14. The relationship ended two years ago. Judge Dennis Davis dismissed the bid, and the article was published yesterday. It was based on an interview with Nadia Vestus, in which she also claims she and the pastor had threesomes with the pastor's wife. She also said she had had an abortion and later had twins by Oktober. In court papers, Oktober vehemently denies the allegations, although he concedes that he fathered the twins. In her affidavit, Vestus said she met Oktober in 2002. She said she lost her virginity in the pastor's car after a church service in Eerste River that year. She said that after that they had sex frequently, mostly in Oktober's Milnerton office. After several months she moved into the pastor's home to help with the cleaning and looking after the pastor's children. Vestus said she fell pregnant in September 2005, and the pastor's wife took her to the Kuils River Clinic, where she had an abortion. The pastor denied this. In 2008 she fell pregnant again, and in June last year she gave birth to twins. Vestus said she believed their relationship should be exposed because of the pastor's involvement with churches, his status as a preacher, the fact that he was an adulterer and that he had had sex with her while she was under 16. In his affidavit, Oktober said he realised "the sexual relationship was wrong, but I have already asked for forgiveness from the Lord, my wife and the congregation".
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