Already serving 20 years for rape, self-styled ‘man of God’ Goitsekgosi Mojadigo is back in court after chilling new allegations emerged that he used his influence and status to prey on a helpless 13-year-old girl.
The inner workings of the disgraced preacher’s alleged house of horrors were laid bare at the Village Magistrate’s Court, where an 18-year-old state witness bravely gave an eyewitness testimony, detailing how the cleric allegedly groomed and fondled the minor.
Taking the stand before Senior Magistrate Tshepo Thedi, state witness Junior Malibela stunned the courtroom by physically demonstrating how the accused would touch the child.
Malibela testified that his suspicions were first ignited after he moved into the church mission house residence at Donga, Francistown, alongside the victim’s mother and her two children.
Mojadigo, then the head of Divine Anointing International Church, had allegedly orchestrated the living arrangements. “I started asking myself questions,” an appalled Malibela told the court. “Wondering what kind of a pastor Mojadigo was that would caress a child.”
According to the witness, the predatory behavior happened right under his nose.
He recounted moments where the pastor would hide behind the guise of prayer to satisfy his urges, allegedly fondling the 13-year-old’s breasts, tummy, and thighs. “He touched her in my presence,” Malibela testified, insisting his evidence was not hearsay. “When he came over, he would pray and touch the young girl inappropriately. He would sit on a chair, caressing her and calling her ‘Spoonokie’.”
The court heard how the smooth-talking preacher allegedly used gifts, affection, and deliberate isolation to corner the vulnerable teenager.
On one occasion, after returning from a trip, Mojadigo allegedly dragged the minor onto his thighs and openly told her how much he had missed her.
Moments later, the pastor allegedly engineered a scenario to get the rest of the household out of the way.
Malibela testified that Mojadigo sent the girl’s mother to the shops on an errand.
He then allegedly ordered the 13-year-old to go and bathe, while ordering Malibela to wash dishes that were already clean, a move the witness saw as a blatant distraction tactic.
“I was confused by the guy and wondered what his intentions were,” Malibela said, adding that he later watched the girl through a broken window as she bathed out of pure suspicion, noting that the pastor was waiting in the bedroom.
The situation escalated into darkness shortly after. “When she finished, he came to the sitting room, took vaseline, and said the young girl should massage him,” Malibela told the court. “He closed the passage door and she just followed him. They took long in the room, I don’t know how long.”
The witness further alleged that the pattern continued on Sundays, with Mojadigo routinely ordering the child to stay behind from church services under the pretext of ironing his clothes.
Acting as his own defense during a tense cross-examination, Mojadigo attempted to poke holes in the witness’s timeline.
He aggressively teenager, demanded to know if the teenager had ever caught him and the victim “with their pants down.” Malibela conceded he had not.
Mojadigo then pressed Malibela on why he had never raised the alarm or reported his fears to anyone at the time, and whether the victim had ever explicitly told him she was being raped. To both questions, the witness conceded he had not.
Satisfied he had landed his points, Mojadigo rested his cross-examination.
The case has been postponed to July 14 when the court will reconvene for the continuation of the trial.
