PHOTO: Pastor imprisoned for raping 4 members of his congregation

A pastor in Zimbabwe has been
sentenced to spend the next half century
in prison after he was found guilty of
raping 4 female members of his
congregation.

Robert Martin Gumbura, the spiritual
leader of the “Robert Martin Gumbura
Independent End Time Message Church”,
is said to have claimed that all female
members of his church were his wives.

Gumbura, who has 11 wives and 30
children, had 10 years taken off his
sentence because it was his first
conviction.

The Times reports :

The court heard that Gumbura, 57,
claimed that all female members of his
church were his wives by right, and
married women were on loan from their
husbands.

“You were a real wolf in sheepskin,” said
magistrate Hoseah Mujaya. The core
business of any church is worshipping and
not sleeping with girls and women and
threaten them that misfortune will befall
them.”

The rapes are said to have occurred more
than a decade ago. The pastor, who has
11 wives and 30 children, had wanted to
sire 100 children.

His conviction included a four-month term
for a separate charge of possession of
pornographic videos.In his defence,
Gumbura stated the DVDs were private
recordings with his wives.