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Pastor sent to prison for conning student
BY TANESHA MUNDLE Observer staff reporter mundlet@jamaicaobserver.com
Monday, November 21, 2011
A minister of religion who conned a university student out of more than $600,000 worth of jewellery after convincing her that the items were possessed with evil spirits, was last week slapped with an 18-month prison sentence at hard labour.
The minister, Lenworth Moses, 37, of Retirement Road in St Andrew, collected five gold chains valued at $200,000, three pendants valued at $50,000, two bracelets valued at $40,000, seven earrings valued at $50,000, four rings valued at $30,000 and four gold bangles valued at $250,000 from the complainant after he visited her at her home.
The complainant told the court that she met Moses after a friend invited her to church. She said that he approached her after the service and told her things about herself that were true. As a result they exchanged telephone numbers and Moses later visited her home.
However, when he visited her she said that he asked her if she had any jewellery in the house and she told him that she did but that some of it belonged to her sister. She said that he then told her to bring them to him, claiming that they were possessed by evil spirits and that he could rid them of the spirits and grant her deliverance.
The minister, she said, also asked her for some rum which he put into his mouth and spewed onto the jewellery while chanting. He also told her to take a bath and asked her for her underwear which he burned and kept the ashes.
She said that he then left with the jewellery which he said he was going to pray over, but did not return. The complainant later reported the matter to the police, after several attempts to contact Moses failed.
The complainant said that she later saw Moses when she returned to the church but he told her that he threw the jewellery into the sea.
Yesterday when Moses appeared in court he told the court that he was begging for mercy. However, Senior Magistrate Judith Pusey was not in a merciful mood and sentenced him to 18 months in prison.
Moses had previously pleaded guilty to larceny by trick.
Some of the jewellery was recovered but not in its original condition, the complainant told the court.
Read more: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/...#ixzz1eLlsvL5h
Pastor sent to prison for conning student
BY TANESHA MUNDLE Observer staff reporter mundlet@jamaicaobserver.com
Monday, November 21, 2011
A minister of religion who conned a university student out of more than $600,000 worth of jewellery after convincing her that the items were possessed with evil spirits, was last week slapped with an 18-month prison sentence at hard labour.
The minister, Lenworth Moses, 37, of Retirement Road in St Andrew, collected five gold chains valued at $200,000, three pendants valued at $50,000, two bracelets valued at $40,000, seven earrings valued at $50,000, four rings valued at $30,000 and four gold bangles valued at $250,000 from the complainant after he visited her at her home.
The complainant told the court that she met Moses after a friend invited her to church. She said that he approached her after the service and told her things about herself that were true. As a result they exchanged telephone numbers and Moses later visited her home.
However, when he visited her she said that he asked her if she had any jewellery in the house and she told him that she did but that some of it belonged to her sister. She said that he then told her to bring them to him, claiming that they were possessed by evil spirits and that he could rid them of the spirits and grant her deliverance.
The minister, she said, also asked her for some rum which he put into his mouth and spewed onto the jewellery while chanting. He also told her to take a bath and asked her for her underwear which he burned and kept the ashes.
She said that he then left with the jewellery which he said he was going to pray over, but did not return. The complainant later reported the matter to the police, after several attempts to contact Moses failed.
The complainant said that she later saw Moses when she returned to the church but he told her that he threw the jewellery into the sea.
Yesterday when Moses appeared in court he told the court that he was begging for mercy. However, Senior Magistrate Judith Pusey was not in a merciful mood and sentenced him to 18 months in prison.
Moses had previously pleaded guilty to larceny by trick.
Some of the jewellery was recovered but not in its original condition, the complainant told the court.
Read more: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/...#ixzz1eLlsvL5h
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