A court in Zomba has sentenced Penjani Sodzera, a Redeemed for Christ Church pastor, to 12 years in prison for sexually abusing a 15-year-old girl.
Zomba First Grade Magistrate’s Court sentenced Sodzera yesterday following his conviction earlier this week.
Sodzera raped the child between December 2020 and January 2021 after he adopted her from an orphanage.
The girl used to stay with Sodzera’s family at Matawale Township where she was tasked with looking after the family’s twins.
In his judgement, First Grade Magistrate Jones Masula said the evidence showed that Sodzera raped the child.
During the day he was convicted, Sodzera’s followers beat up a journalist after he tried to take pictures of the rapist. Police intervened to rescue the Journalist.
