Satanic trial: Alleged mastermind testifies, From praying to preying? Pastor accused of raping his parishioners

Satanic trial: Alleged mastermind testifies
October 10 2013 By Naledi Mailula

Johannesburg – There was talk of having sex with Kirsty Theologo and her friend before they were set alight in an apparent satanic ritual, the Johannesburg High Court heard on Thursday.

“Lester (Moody) said we must sleep with the girls, not rape them,” Linden Wagner, the alleged mastermind of the ritual, told the High Court in Johannesburg, sitting in the Palm Ridge Magistrate’s Court.

He said he did not agree with the suggestion.

Earlier, Wagner told the court that he and four of the other accused had been prepared to sell their souls on the day Theologo and her friend were doused with petrol and set alight in an alleged satanic ritual on a hill in Linmeyer, Johannesburg, in October 2011.

Theologo died of her burns a week later, but her 14-year-old friend survived the attack….
http://www.iol.co.za/news/crime-courts/satanic-trial-alleged-mastermind-testifies-1.1590079

From praying to preying? Pastor accused of raping his parishioners
By Tom Watkins, CNN
Fri September 20, 2013

Jorge Juan Castro, an associate pastor, is being held in lieu of $2 million bail
The alleged abuse began shortly after he arrived from Argentina
Castro allegedly raped more than 20 undocumented immigrants
He allegedly threatened to have them deported if they told

(CNN) — It would not be surprising for an associate pastor to pray with his parishioners.

But Jorge Juan Castro wound up preying on them instead, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said Friday. He is accused of raping more than 20 women, many of whom are Spanish-speaking, undocumented immigrants.

The alleged abuse began in October 2004, shortly after Castro took a job as associate pastor at Las Buenas Nuevas Church in Norwalk, and continued until September 2012, the department said in a news release….
http://ww.cnn.com/2013/09/20/justice/pastor-immigrants-rape