SAPA — A priest has been arrested for allegedly kidnapping and raping a 15-year-old girl in Itireleng informal settlement near Laudium, Pretoria police said.

The 25-year-old man was arrested on Wednesday around 01:00 after allegedly kidnapping the girl at the weekend and repeatedly raping her, police spokesperson Ann Poortman said.

The teenager’s sister sent her to a tuck shop around 11:30am on Saturday. While she was there, she saw the priest who told her to go to a certain shack in the area.

The girl’s family attended the man’s church and he was believed to be close friends with the girl’s father, Poortman said. When the girl walked to the shack the priest allegedly followed her, raped her, and locked her inside. When her father returned home and noticed she was not home yet her family opened a missing person’s case at the police station.

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