Cape Town – Six members of an unidentified church in the North West province were arrested on Friday after allegedly being found naked with 11 children in a house used as a church.
The children were aged between four and 12.
In a statement, North West police spokesperson Brigadier Sabata Mokgwabone said that the arrested congregants were three males and three females aged between 21 and 85.
The congregants were found naked with the kids on June 1.
Police got a tip-off from the wife of one of the congregants who had recruited her into the church, News24 reported.
“When she got into the church and found the congregants naked she immediately told the police,” the report quoted Mokgwabone as saying.
The only person found wearing clothes at the time was the 34-year-old female church leader.
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“Subsequent to preliminary investigations, all children between the ages of four to 12, of which six are boys and five are girls, were removed from the house and handed to social workers for intervention, and ultimately placed under the care of other family members.
“According to information received, the house that was used as a church, partially burnt on Friday due to items including a couch which were set alight by the church leader who is also one of the accused persons. She was arrested and charged on Sunday, 5 June 2022, after being discharged from the hospital where she was admitted two days earlier,” said Mokgwabone.
The six appeared in the Rustenburg Magistrate’s Court on Monday on charges of crimen injuria and contravention of Section 22 of the Criminal Law ( Sexual Offences and Related Matters) Amendment Act.
They will be detained until June 13.
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