Daily Sun (November 7 2013) - A SO-CALLED man of God is on the run after cops rescued two women he allegedly held as sex slaves for more than a month.
The women told Daily Sun a harrowing tale of being locked up, raped and beaten on a farm by a sex-crazed drunk addicted to drugs and prostitutes.
A THIRD GIRL HAD APPARENTLY BEEN HELD IN ANOTHER ROOM ON THE FARM SINCE LAST YEAR!
The two women who spoke to Daily Sun cannot be named.
VICTIM ONE, aged 28, from Dobsonville, Soweto, told us when the pastor met her he told her to dump her boyfriend because God would send her another man.
"Then he told me he was the man. He said God gave him a message he must marry me."
She said she believed him because he was performing miracles at church.
"On 10 September he asked me to meet him at a farm near Krugersdorp, Gauteng," said the woman.
"He looked nervous when I arrived, as if he hadn't slept for days. He showed me a back room and while I was inside, he locked the door."
The woman said she was abused physically and sexually every day and guarded by a second man.
Three days later the second woman was pushed into the back room to join her.
VICTIM TWO, aged 25, also from Dobsonville, told Daily Sun she had been dating the pastor since April.
"He wanted us to keep our relationship secret," said the woman.
"On 13 September he called me to meet him and we went to the farm.
"It was dark and he opened the door and shoved me inside. I was shocked to see another girl from our church in the room."
The two women told us their lives became a hell.
"The pastor started drinking Johnny Walker and made us pray for him.
"There was another girl in the room next door. We could hear her screaming and fighting with the pastor."
Said VICTIM ONE: "He would rape us in front of each other and beat us up. He didn't use protection.
"If we resisted he would beat us and threaten to kill us. He said he wanted to see some blood," said the woman.
There was a bag stuffed with money in the room which the man used to pay two prostitutes he called in to have sex.
"He had sex with them the whole day - but they ran away with his R20 000!"
The women said it wasn't until 20 October that they were rescued.
They said they heard a car stop outside. It was the police with the owner of the farm.
"The owner used the spare keys to open the back rooms. "That was the first time that we saw the 19-year-old girl.
"It was thanks to her we were saved," said the women.
"She told us that she had been there since last year and that she wrote a note and threw it out the window, asking for someone to call the police."
VICTIM ONE said when they looked in the other room, the police found used condoms and drugs.
"We trusted this man because he was a pastor but what he did to us is unforgivable."
Spokesman for the Krugersdorp SAPS, Constable Tshepiso Mashale, confirmed that cases of rape and kidnapping were opened after two girls were kidnapped by a pastor. Constable Mashale said the suspect and his accomplice were arrested, but granted bail.
The 19-year-old girl, believed to come from Hammanskraal, was not mentioned on the charge sheet. Cops said they are looking for a man named John Setlhare.
"The suspect is on the run and is wanted," said the cop.
) Anyone who has information on the man's whereabouts should call 011 951 1151 or 071 675 7042.
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