{"id":54260,"date":"2026-03-29T00:18:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T00:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/?p=54260"},"modified":"2026-03-29T00:18:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T00:18:00","slug":"betrayal-in-church-pastor-fondles-congregant-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/2026\/03\/29\/betrayal-in-church-pastor-fondles-congregant-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Betrayal In Church \u2013 Pastor Fondles Congregant ( 19)\u2026 \u2013 Eduzim News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"post_data\">\n<p>Betrayal In Church \u2013 Pastor Fondles Congregant ( 19)\u2026<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Tinashe Sambiri\u2013<br \/>The Mbare Magistrates\u2019 Court has sentenced a 44-year-old pastor from Glen View to 12 months in prison for indecently assaulting a 19-year-old congregant.<\/p>\n<p>Three months of the sentence were suspended for five years, leaving an effective jail term of nine months.<\/p>\n<p>Court documents state that on 8 December 2025 at around 10:30am, the pastor asked the victim\u2019s mother for permission for her daughter to help him with cleaning duties at the church.<\/p>\n<p>Upon arrival, he allegedly hugged and fondled the victim, despite her repeated pleas to stop. He also reportedly attempted to force the victim to touch him.<\/p>\n<p>The assault ended when someone knocked on the church door. The victim later informed her mother, leading to the pastor\u2019s arrest and prosecution.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<span id=\"wordads-inline-marker\" style=\"display: none;\"\/><\/p>\n<p><h3 class=\"jp-relatedposts-headline\"><em>Related<\/em><\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<p><!-- #comments --><\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n<script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\" async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Africa tv video display -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3579572842\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\">\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n#Betrayal #Church #Pastor #Fondles #Congregant #ZimEye<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Betrayal In Church \u2013 Pastor Fondles Congregant ( 19)\u2026 Tinashe Sambiri\u2013The Mbare Magistrates\u2019 Court has sentenced a 44-year-old pastor from&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52139,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,11],"tags":[706,899,10210,6694,10209,202,3068],"class_list":["post-54260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mzansi","category-world","tag-betrayal","tag-church","tag-congregant","tag-eduzim","tag-fondles","tag-news","tag-pastor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54261,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54260\/revisions\/54261"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}