SCOTLAND
STV
A former university lecturer who founded his own church and sexually abused members has avoided jail after a sheriff said he had “already suffered a spectacular fall from grace”.
Walter Masocha, who called himself “The Prophet”, was made subject to a community payback order with the condition that he performs 250 hours unpaid work.
The 51-year-old was also placed on supervision and the sex offenders register for 12 months.
The “Archbishop” of the Stirling-based Agape for All Nations Church, who put his hand down the trousers of a schoolgirl saying he was trying to remove demons, was assessed by social workers as at “moderate risk” of re-offending.
Masocha, who also groped a young deaconess while he was supposed to be praying for a problem she had with her stomach, was told by Sheriff Kenneth McGowan his conduct must have left his victims “hurt and bewildered”.
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