A single mom of four claims a pastor raped her in a bush in Wellington after she met him on Facebook last week.
The 44-year-old Lavender Hill woman contacted the Daily Voice, saying she wanted to warn other women about the “holy man”.
She says after the attack, the pastor begged her for forgiveness, claiming he hadn’t had sex since his wife died a year ago, and that the holy spirit had stopped him from further attacking her.
Showing the Daily Voice the pastor’s Facebook profile and the chats they’ve had, the woman says she met him last week after he inboxed her, asking if she was single.
Facebook chats
She says she responded to his chats because they knew the same church people.
They exchanged phone numbers and chatted via WhatsApp.
She says on Friday, when she had to run an errand in Khayelitsha, he offered her a lift.
She says she was “reluctant” to meet him, but thought she could trust him because he was a “man of God.”
“He said I must meet him on the main road in Bellville and I did, but then he came up with a story that he needed to get a car part in Kraaifontein and realised he didn’t have money and asked me if he could borrow the money.
“But then I noticed he was driving past Kraaifontein’s turn-off and I began to panic and asked where he was going.”
She says in Wellington, he pulled over: “He claimed he needed to talk to me and told me to walk with him. I said to myself, he is a pastor, I can trust him.”
But as they came to a bush along the road, he allegedly started kissing her.
She claims despite her screams and pushing him off, he forced himself on her: “I said what are you doing, you are a pastor, and that I had trusted him.
“He told me to keep quiet about God and said I am making him bef**.
“Then he raped me. When he stopped, he said, ‘see what you made me do now, the spirit of God told me to stop’.”
She claims the pastor told her to clean herself, and that he would take her home: “I did not want to get into the car and people drove past, seeing my reluctance.”
She says she allowed him to drop her off in Bellville and travelled home from there.
“He kept contacting me afterwards, saying I am just like his wife who died more than a year ago, I am giving him a hard time and that soon, I will be his wife,” she says.
VICTIM: The Lavender Hill mom of four pressed charges against the pastor. Picture:Jack Lestrade
“On Sunday, I opened a case at Steenberg Police Station and the case will be transferred to Wellington.”
The woman says she was shocked to learn that the pastor’s wife is alive.
When the Daily Voice messaged the pastor on WhatsApp, his wife replied: “Hello who are you, why are you calling my husband, are you jolling with him?”
Asked about the attack, she replied: “Raped? Do you think I must believe you? You are talking nonsense, You people, you like to frame him.”
The pastor then called the Daily Voice, denying he knew the woman: “I’m going to sue her, who is this person and why are you contacting my wife?”
The woman says after this call, he sent her a voicenote, asking whether she had laid a charge of rape against him.
He also texted her saying: “Why don’t you speak, I just want to know (if you made a case). You know, I love you so much.”
Police spokesman Colonel Andrè Traut confirmed a case of rape is being investigated by the Paarl FCS.