A PREDATOR preacher who sexually assaulted a woman while pretending to ‘exorcise demons’ has been caged for 10 years.
Cult leader Walter Masocha, 61 – called ‘The Prophet’ by parishioners – was also jailed for a rape bid during a six year reign of sexual terror between 2006 and 2012.
Walter Masocha, 61, was caged for ten years at Livingston High Court
The predator preacher sexually assaulted a woman while pretending to ‘exorcise demons’
The “archbishop” of Stirling-based Agape for All Nations Church told a woman, 58, that God had “given her to him as a gift” and ordered her to kiss his “holy lips”.
At the High Court in Livingston, judge Susan Craig told Masocha, who watched on via video link from jail, that he had used his front as a preacher to ‘callously exploit’ his victims.
She said: “You are nothing more than an opportunist sexual predator and are guilty of the grossest breach of trust.
“The common denominator was the victims worshipped you, a ‘prophet’ who could work miracles.
“You took sexual advantage whenever you felt like doing so.”
He was jailed for 10 years, given a further four-year extended sentence and placed on the sex offenders register indefinitely.
A 39-year-old witness said she was 20 when Masocha began sexually abusing her.
She told the jury: “He would tell me, ‘God said I need to look after you and has given me special love for you in particular’.”
She said the fiend sexually assaulted her in his home in Bridge of Allan, near Stirling.
He also tried to rape her after taking her into his bedroom.
The Zimbabwean founded his church in 2007.
He lived a jetset life visiting ministries across the UK, US, Canada and Africa.
He was convicted in 2015 of a sex assault on a woman and sexual activity with a girl of 15.
The conviction was later quashed on appeal.
Agape’s church was also linked to the horrific killing of five-year-old Scott Chirashi in Alva, Clacks in 2014.
His mother Farai Chirashi, who had been shunned by the church, stabbed the schoolboy to death and cut his heart out but was found not guilty of murder at the High Court in Glasgow by reason of insanity.
When she killed her son, she thought she was on a “mission from God”.
One ex-church member claimed that Chiriseri was “demonised” by the preacher when she left his church.
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