SOUTH AFRICA
IOL
November 20 2012
By Yogas Nair
KwaZulu-Natal – A priest visiting from India, who had sexually groomed a 12-year-old North Coast girl for two months on Skype by showing her images of the Kama Sutra, has been convicted of rape.
Adhyatma Adhyatma Amithananda, 57, a Hindu priest and self-proclaimed spiritual teacher, arrived in South Africa from Kerala in March 2010. He had been invited by religious leaders in oThongathi (Tongaat).
The victim’s family met him at a local temple where he was delivering a religious discourse.
The girl had epilepsy with chronic seizures and the family had asked him to pray for her to cure her of her condition.
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