I don't know. Maybe Christian standards of conduct are lower in third world countries? Uganda is a third world country, right?
POLICE in Kamuli have arrested a pastor over alleged defilement of a mentally challenged 13-year-old girl, a member of his church.
Yona Malinzi, 30, of the Full Gospel Church in Miseru, Kidera sub-county in Kamuli, was arrested recently and is being detained at Kamuli Central Police Station.
The district Police commander, Frank Abalawuwe, said Malinzi was arrested while leading a church service and transferred to Kamuli for interrogation.
He said the arrest was prompted by the mother of the victim who alleged that Malinzi had made the girl pregnant.
“We are yet to establish the truth if the pastor did this to a young girl who is mentally disturbed and can hardly speak,” Abalawuwe said. Investigations were still going on and Malinzi would be brought to court when they are completed,” he said.
I'm guessing a paternity test will solve the problem. But Pastor Malinzi still has some explaining to do. How is it that a mentally disturbed girl in his care became pregnant?
I don't report stories from Africa very often. They all seem to involve rape, murder, or molestation. It is so depressing. Then again, most of the stories I publish from America cover the same subject. Perhaps we are not so different?
