REPUBLIC OF MALAWI
Nyasa Times/Mana (Malawi)
September 6, 2017
CCAP Synod of Livingstonia cleric Reverend Chiwawa Banda will on Wednesday be sentenced by Rumphi First Grade Magistrate’s Court after he was convicted for defiling a 13- year-old girl (name shielded for legal reasons.)
The girl claimed Reverend Banda of Chiswamapira Village Traditional Authority Kabunduli in Nkhatabay but based at Luzi in Rumphi, sexually assaulted her three times.
He was accused of taking he girl to woodlot for sexual assualt.
The cleric had also bought a mobile phone for the girl so that he could have more contact with her on Whatsapp.
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