By NKOMBO KACHEMBA
MEMBERS of the Christ Embassy Church in Kitwe’s Wusakile on Sunday beat up a 41-year-old fellow worshipper for allegedly defiling a three-year-old girl while they were worshipping.
The church members alerted police who apprehended the suspect and took him to Kitwe Central Police station.
Copperbelt commissioner of police Mary Tembo confirmed the incident. She said the suspect, who has been arrested, has been identified as Kennedy Chanda of House No. E4-18 Wusakile in Kitwe.
Mrs Tembo said the child was attending Sunday school lessons outside the church when the incident happened.
Helen Banda, a church member, said the man of Wusakile in Kitwe lured the girl into one of the empty rooms at the church and defiled her while her mother was attending prayers.
She said the worshippers apprehended the man when he attempted to run away.
Ms Banda said when the girl’s mother walked out of the church around 12:00 hours, she found her daughter crying outside.
She said the girl told her mother that a man had taken her into a room and the mother confirmed that her daughter had been defiled after examining her.
“We are deeply disappointed with the man for sexually abusing a child while we were worshipping in church. He is our church member and we are really saddened by the incident,” Ms Banda said.
cherry
June 18, 2013 at 9:50 am
THIS IS SAD DEVELOPMENT FOR THE CHURCH.PLEASE A CHILD NEEDS PROTECTION FROM BOTH PARENTS AND THE COMMUNITY ESPECIALLY CHURCH BUT IT SEEMS THERE IS NO SAFE PLACE FOR OUR DEAR CHILDREN.MY GOD INTERVENE
whizz kid
June 18, 2013 at 10:58 am
Only stup!d id!ots type in capital letters.
Kwacha-Rebased Lungu
June 18, 2013 at 9:56 am
Very ****** worshipper indeed! These are the guys who fail to propose to women then they pounce on innocent children. I do not understand what is wrong with men nowadays?
PJM
June 18, 2013 at 10:00 am
Devil is working on this man even at church, its true we really needs God intervene in our churches.
XXX
June 18, 2013 at 10:01 am
They did well to beat the crap out of this dirty man!!!we should not allow no sense like this anywhere especially the house of worship!! if am the judge this man should be caged for life.
Captain
June 18, 2013 at 10:10 am
What has become of this world sure? Cage the 1diot. Church members should have stone him to death.
Captain
June 18, 2013 at 10:11 am
What has become of this world sure? Cage the 1diot. Church members should have stoned him to death.
Atrocious
June 18, 2013 at 10:33 am
Shame!!!the church why? that’s premature way of handling problems, but guess what? they just found out, what an embarrassment. I can never come to that church? even the bible says, do not let the left hand know what the right hand is doing. such a waste!!!
Johnson
June 18, 2013 at 10:49 am
The man is the devil himself.
Kalonde
June 18, 2013 at 10:55 am
Throw him in septic tunk
CACINE
June 18, 2013 at 11:02 am
Napapa sana, ku Church we ciwa iwe sure! God, where are we going? We send our children to church because we know that is the safest place but alas, fyatampa ukucinja. Awe katwishi nomba kanshi mwe.
bikini girl
June 18, 2013 at 11:13 am
The church is not a safe place, that is where most vulnerable young teenagers are raped and impregnated by elders especially choir masters.
bikini girl
June 18, 2013 at 11:07 am
Was the little girl wearing a mini skirt? That’s what Zambian men and chitenge clad foolish women think forces sexual abusers to rape young women.
cherry
June 18, 2013 at 11:13 am
Dear bikini girl a child whether naked or not or mini skirt is still a child needs your and my protection at all times.whether that child is yours or not needs your protection my dear.
bikini girl
June 18, 2013 at 11:21 am
Go and tell that to those primitive savages in Zambia! I wear a mini skirt everywhere i go in my civilized country and no one attack’s me for doing that. But in your primitive country it’s a different story. I’d be stripped naked or worse, raped by dirty stinking men… I asked if the little girl was wearing a miniskirt, because that’s the reason those smelly savages give for stripping and raping women in your parts of the world.
Umupandapwiti
June 19, 2013 at 11:16 am
Ulimbwa ya muntu iwe. Where did you see a three year old wearing a “Mini-Skirt” to provoke men sexually??? Satanyoko!!!
She - Knows
June 19, 2013 at 11:35 am
I think what bikini girl means is what excuse are the people who blame women young and old being raped on how they dress saying the skirt she wore was too short. This is a three year old girl who cant wear a mini skirt or hipster with a protruding g string and even if she did she would not arouse any sane man for sex, but this sex crased maniac did the unthinkable. Guys lets not give ****** excuses for our insane wrongdoings.
CNP-4U
June 18, 2013 at 11:15 am
***** teacher..arrest him..
Redeemed
June 18, 2013 at 11:19 am
May God deliver his church! This is uncalled for
Bush Doctor
June 18, 2013 at 11:19 am
Like it has been said before all the churches formed by so called men of god from Naija are satanic!
What more evidence do you need now?
Slowthinkers
June 18, 2013 at 11:26 am
Especially the one mothafcuker called tb joshua. He is the devil in sheep’s skin.
cherry
June 19, 2013 at 11:35 am
Slowthinkers never ever associate GOD given prophet with these unthinkable dirty.please leave him alone he is doing GOD s mission on earth.
XXX
June 18, 2013 at 11:23 am
@iwe chi bikini girl!!! wheather the 3YR old girl naked or wearing a mini skit doesn’t warrant the ***** to do what he did!!! if I was in that church would have personally cracked open the fool’s head
blindfools
June 18, 2013 at 11:46 am
So why then are women and teen girls stripped and harassed for wearing any other clothes apart from those ugly chitenges rags?
Mind you, you african savages run around naked not too long ago. Even the bushman in the Kalahari desert or pygmy in the congo rainforest doesn’t go around raping bush women because they go about naked in the forest.
Unlike you town nigga’s that has been brainwashed by a stup!d foreign book called the bible and a useless religon called christianity. You waste precious time worshiping a foreign religon which was brought to you by people that do not practice what the preached to you.
Queen Boogie
June 18, 2013 at 3:02 pm
@xxx what bikini gal meant was that the common excuse for rape in Zambia is mini skirts coz people r jus shallow….so in essence she was RAPE n Abuse happens all the time regardless of wat girls wear.
kegwin sinyangwe
June 18, 2013 at 11:33 am
sad where are we going pa zed sure even ku church is it just sex or juju. if i where the judge i will sentence him to have is dirty items cut like studens in agric sch do to pigs or cows.
shonga
June 18, 2013 at 11:41 am
What!!!!! This is an indication of how weak the church has become. How honestly would one defile a child in the midst of the church prayers. Pastors and all ministers of the word of God wake up and cleanse the church from such satanic acts. Start teaching people salvation and not prosperity.
Slowthinkers
June 18, 2013 at 11:57 am
The church as long as i can remember has been a hiding place for evildoers.
This has been going on since the birth of christianity!
Just google “raped in church” and see how many cases they are… i found 40.300.000 Results (0,24 Seconds)
kakolwe
June 18, 2013 at 11:48 am
ba Bikini, would you kindly share which part of this planet you hide. Am well travelled & yet to see a perfect place. We all have our deviants & need to deal with them squarely. Come down from your ivory tower.
Kongwe
June 18, 2013 at 12:05 pm
You say you are well travelled but I’m more travelled than any other Zambian, even your so called “kakwendo mujila” RB cannot beat my record.. i’ve been jet setting round the globe for 30 yrs none stop without spending a ngwee from my own pocket!
Bullu
June 18, 2013 at 2:34 pm
@Kongwe, so what has that got to do with kakolwe’s comment?
Maikalange
June 19, 2013 at 9:11 am
Abaiche pa tumfweko twapapata
Humphrey Makufi
June 18, 2013 at 12:05 pm
Where are will going ?
elm
June 18, 2013 at 12:17 pm
This church sunday school he has destroyed a child’s future mentaly. the pastor should sicrutnase the type of people to give resposibility cose this old man was not fit to be a sunday school teacher. the blame should on the to tembar pastors. pls pls……………………… govt should be on the look out of this churchesss there are now dangerous to the socities.
bullseye
June 18, 2013 at 12:20 pm
-Oklahoma -13-year-old raped in church and girl’s mother sues church for covering it up.
-Johannesburg – A Soweto pastor has been arrested for the rape of a woman who told police he had forced her to have sex with him three times in his church and in a locked room
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-Priests Rape Boys: an air-tight, three word case against the Catholic church. The Catholic Church is the largest, most well-funded and organized pedophile group in the history of man!
-Prophet arrested for rape at church headquarters..A Zion Christian Church (ZCC) prophet has been arrested for allegedly raping a woman at the church’s headquarters in Moria, near Polokwane.
-The woman (27) alleged that the prophet (35) put a knife to her throat while raping her on Saturday morning during an all-night prayer session on church premises, The Star reported
- Teen Boy Raped In Church
An 18-year-old woman has been accused of raping a 13-year-old boy inside a church.
Hannah Steiner is alleged to have forced the teen to have sex when he asked her to stop after they began touching each other.
Police said the alleged rape took place after a Sunday school meeting and before the worship service at the Skyline Church of Christ in Jackson, Tennessee.
Steiner and the teen are alleged to have been touching each other when the boy said things had gone far enough and he wanted to stop.
According to an arrest report the teen tried to stop, but Steiner forced him to have sex.
The alleged rape took place in a room at the church.
After being arrested Steiner, a high school student, allegedly told police she had consensual sex with the boy.
Malcom X
June 18, 2013 at 3:01 pm
If these incidents happened in other religions the Christians of Zambia would be raving on about demons possessing these other religions. It all happened in their chruch so what can they say??
kakolwe
June 18, 2013 at 12:22 pm
@ Bikini girl/Kongwe (If U’re one person) In your 30 year mobility, have you found a place without deviants? Humans behaving outside the NORM? NADA! That’s my arguement not how many kilometres more. Wise Up!
bitter pill
June 18, 2013 at 12:31 pm
chakubábá
Shimweshimwe
June 18, 2013 at 12:29 pm
Evil is no faceless stranger,
living in a distant neighborhood.
Evil has a wholesome, hometown face,
with merry eyes and an open smile.
Evil walks among us, wearing a mask
which looks like all our faces.
-Dean Koontz
Confused and Ashamed
June 18, 2013 at 12:34 pm
I Had My First Orgasm While Being Gang Raped!
kakolwe
June 18, 2013 at 12:34 pm
Thanx @bullseye. You’ve summed it up very well that deviants are everywhere. Miopic clowns like Bikini girl ought to know & be alive to such facts before they think it is geographically seperated & isolated.
pettie
June 18, 2013 at 4:25 pm
Mwelesa where is the world going to?amahule ubwingi muma bar
Jimmie tall
June 18, 2013 at 6:00 pm
That man should be punished what’s wrong with da elders nowaday isn’t juju da ar practise or what God help us.
child protector
June 18, 2013 at 6:40 pm
THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE.CAGE THE DEFILER AND MAY THE FULL WRATH OF THE LAW HAMMER HIM SO THAT HE SERVES THE REST OF HIS LIFE IN JAIL,THAT’S THE SAFEST PLACE FOR HIM AND ALL THOSE WHO BREAK THE LAWS OF ZAMBIA.FOR THE LITTLE BABY-SAD BUT HOWEVER,I ENCOURAGE THE PARENTS AND ALL THOSE CLOSE TO THE FAMILY TO HELP THE BABY WITH ALL THE NECESSARY REQUISITES SUCH AS LOVE,SUPPORT,ACCESS TO GOOD MEDICAL SERVICES AND THE WARMTH THAT GOES WITH SUCH A CHILD.I PRAY FOR THE QUICK RECOVERY OF THE BABY EMOTIONALLY.PHYSICALLY.PSYCHOLOGICALLY AND SPIRITUALLY.AMEN.
Tsk tsk..
June 19, 2013 at 3:55 am
only stup!d Id!ots type in block letters..iwe chimbwi
child protector
June 18, 2013 at 6:42 pm
THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE.CAGE THE DEFILER AND MAY THE FULL WRATH OF THE LAW VISIT HIM SO THAT HE SERVES THE REST OF HIS LIFE IN JAIL,THAT’S THE SAFEST PLACE FOR HIM AND ALL THOSE WHO BREAK THE LAWS OF ZAMBIA.FOR THE LITTLE BABY-SAD BUT HOWEVER,I ENCOURAGE THE PARENTS AND ALL THOSE CLOSE TO THE FAMILY TO HELP THE BABY WITH ALL THE NECESSARY REQUISITES SUCH AS LOVE,SUPPORT,ACCESS TO GOOD MEDICAL SERVICES AND THE WARMTH THAT GOES WITH SUCH A CHILD.I PRAY FOR THE QUICK RECOVERY OF THE BABY EMOTIONALLY.PHYSICALLY.PSYCHOLOGICALLY AND SPIRITUALLY.AMEN.
Tsk tsk..
June 19, 2013 at 3:57 am
Ubupuba!!! How do you expect anyone to read your rubbish?
KAPASO
June 19, 2013 at 10:14 am
We cipuba niwebo, stick to the topic and not to other individuals. Foolish.
Chola moonga
June 19, 2013 at 10:29 am
more drama in Livingstone, Lion of judah city church international is on Muvim TV and radio Zambezi, there is an announcement that they have been choped off from the mother body PAOG. becuase of sexual misconduct and finnancial mismanagenet from the pastor….shame on once famous pastor ken