A self-styled prophet and traditional healer who is HIV positive from Nata was caught in the act raping three minors.
He had already inserted his manhood into the first two and was now about to pounce on the third when he was traced down and caught by one of the mothers, the court heard.
The man George Nduse, 57, was found guilty of three counts of rape and one of attempted rape and has been slapped with a 14 year jail sentence.
He had pleaded not guilty to all the rape charges and that of attempted rape. He was convicted by Francistown magistrate Kgololesego Segabo due to overwhelming state evidence.
The Voice Newspaper reports that the court proved that Nduse had sex with two five-year old girls and another one who was aged 12 at the time of the incident.
It was also proven that Nduse attempted to have carnal knowledge of another five-year-old girl.
Nduse took the three five-year-old girls on the evening of October 23 2010 and led them into a nearby bush under the pretext that he was going to conduct some traditional rituals on the unsuspecting young girls.
He had buckets full of water mixed with traditional herbs and a big bathing dish. Nduse led the three minors into a nearby bush for a cleansing after manipulating their single mothers into believing that the minors were failing at school because of bad luck.
He ordered the girls to undress before raping two of them.
As he was about to pounce on the third girl who is also his stepdaughter, the mother to one of the abused girls arrived at the scene and later reported the matter to the police.
The self-styled traditional healer deliberately infected the two minors with HIV as he was aware of his status.
Nduse spent 2011 in remand and released the following year where he continued with his callous act.
He again offered to help a 12-year-old who had severe period pains. Nduse took her to the bush under the pretext that he was going to exorcise her yet his plan was to rape her.
Sentencing Nduse, Segabo considered that the convict committed the offense when he was old enough to be a grandfather to all four of his victims.
“The convict devised a strategy and took advantage of the minors for the purposes of appeasing sexual desire. This is one of the worst cases I have dealt with since becoming a magistrate,” the magistrate told the court.