The schoolgirl victim of sex shame preacher Walter Masocha yesterday criticised a sheriff for not jailing him. Princess Chiferere was just 13 when Masocha began grooming her at Agape for All Nations church in Stirling before molesting her.
He singled out the youngster and sent her a series of texts saying he loved her. In one chilling message, he told her: “You’re mine.”
And she told how the preacher assaulted her by putting his hand down her pants and telling her he was exorcising demons.
Princess, now 17, has waived her right to anonymity to tell how she’s suffered since standing up to Masocha, who was called Daddy by women in his church .
She says she feels let down by Sheriff Kenneth McGowan’s decision to hand the preacher a 250-hour community service order instead of a jail sentence .
McGowan spared him prison at Falkirk Sheriff Court last month, saying Masocha had “already suffered a spectacular fall from grace”.
Zimbabwe-born Masocha had been convicted of two sex offences in April.
The pastor, a former accountancy lecturer at Stirling University, was found guilty of sexually assaulting the deaconess of the church.
He was also convicted of kissing and caressing Princess at the church’s base at Cosyneuk House in Sauchieburn, near Stirling.
The offences were committed between January 2012 and January 2014.
Princess, from Denny, Stirlingshire, says the legacy of his crimes has been difficult to endure.
She said: “The past couple of years have been very hard.
“Walter Masocha was somebody I trusted – he was my spiritual father, a man of God.
“I looked up to him and respected him but he abused my trust and his position.
I don’t trust anybody now. This has had a massive effect on my confidence.
“For months, I kept hearing his voice saying discouraging things to me, like ‘you’re a failure’ or ‘nobody will believe you’.
Source: Nehandaradio
