By REBECCA MUSHOTA –
A PASTOR of Lusaka and his nephew have been arrested for defiling a 15-year-old girl and making her pregnant.
The girl was taken to the pastor for healing but the man of God and his nephew took advantage of her and repeatedly had sex with her.
Mathews Zimba, 40, pastor at Christ is Calling Bible Church in Chazanga Township in Lusaka and his 18-year-old nephew are alleged to have defiled the girl.
The two allegedly had sex with the girl, while she was living with them from February to May this year.
Lusaka Province Police chief Charity Katanga said in an interview yesterday that the girl’s father took his daughter to Zimba for prayers because she suffers from persistent fits.
Ms Katanga said the father thought that the matter was severe and required spiritual services of the pastor.
When the father took his child there, Zimba said that he could only conduct the healing prayer sessions in the night and suggested that the girl remains in his home until she was healed.
Zimba was living with his nephew at the time.
It is then that the pastor and his nephew started having sex with the girl.
“So the girl is two months pregnant and it is not known who the father between the two is. So we have arrested them both for defilement and they are in police custody,” Ms Katanga said.
She said the father only knew of what had happened after they found out that the girl was pregnant.
Meanwhile, a day-old baby was abandoned at a house in Woodlands residential area.
Ms Katanga said the owner of the house was alerted by her neighbours that there was a baby outside her gate.
The owner of the house then took the child to the University Teaching Hospital and her condition is said to be stable.