New probe into leader of cult guilty of sex abuse

POLICE investigating incidents of alleged abuse i nvolving a disgraced religious cult leader have submitted a report to Scottish prosecutors.

The development comes as Zimbabwean preacher Walter Masocha awaits sentencing this week after he preyed on two female members of his Agape for All Nations church in Stirling.

The shamed leader was convicted of sexually assaulting a mother of four and molesting a teenage schoolgirl, claiming he was removing demons from her underwear.

Yesterday, it emerged that Masocha, 51, a former accountancy lecturer at Stirling University, has been investigated over further incidents alleged to have taken place over a three-year period in the city.

A Crown Office spokesman confirmed: ‘The procurator fiscal at Stirling has received a report con-

‘The case in under consideration’

cerning a 51-year-old man in connection with incidents said to have occurred in Stirling between 2008 and 2010.

‘The case is under consideration by the procurator fiscal.’

Last month, Masocha, the ‘Archbishop’ of the church he set up in 2008, was found guilty of sexually assaulting a deaconess in 2012, groping her and claiming he was praying for her to recover from a stomach complaint.

A year later, he molested a 15year-old girl, putting his hand in her underwear because he saw ‘demons and things that shouldn’t be there’.

She told Falkirk Sheriff Court: ‘I just broke into tears because I thought I had been doing things wrong without realising.’

It was revealed recently that Masocha, who made his followers call him ‘Daddy’, collected half a million pounds in ‘tithes’ from his acolytes last year.

Members were told to give at least 10 per cent of their earnings to the church, though former members said that they felt pressured to give more.