ZIMBABWE
New Zimbabwe
by Staff Reporter
A PRIEST who “put the fear of God” into his maid before raping her several times over a two-year period has been jailed for 15 years.
Ruthless Edias Ncube, 35, threatened the 21-year-old woman with death if she reported the abuse to anyone as he carried out the sex attacks between October 2008 and July 2010, a Bulawayo magistrate heard.
Ncube, a graduate pastor of the Seventh Day Adventist Church, attacked the woman while his wife – a lecturer at Solusi University – was at work or attending workshops, said Goodluck Katenaire, prosecuting.
Originally from Msilahobe in Lower Gweru, Ncube’s crimes went undetected until he made the maid pregnant.
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