Satanic murder accused tells of beating, Oxford sex gang

[crime reporter]

- Satanic murder accused tells of beating
- Witness not warned of satanic killing
- Child rapist's jail term appeal fails - "satanic" sex abuse
- Loving parents. An utterly respectable home. So how did Rachel, 11,
fall prey to the Oxford sex gang?

Satanic murder accused tells of beating May 17 2013 by Meggan
Saville Johannesburg

The case against four people accused of killing teenager Kirsty
Theologo in an alleged satanic ritual was postponed by the High Court
sitting in the Palm Ridge Magistrate's Court on Friday. Judge
Geraldine Borchers postponed the matter until Monday, when one of the
accused, Harvey Isha, would testify. Kirsty Theologo, 18, and her
friend, who was 14-years-old at the time, were tied up, doused with
petrol, and set alight on a hill in Linmeyer, south of Johannesburg,
on October 21, 2011. Theologo died in hospital, but her friend
survived.

Jeremy King and Lester Moody admitted to the crime and were both
sentenced to 17 years in jail, five of which were suspended.
The other four accused - Isha, Robin Harwood, Lindon Wagner, and
Courtney Daniels - have pleaded not guilty to charges of murder,
attempted murder, and assault with intent to cause grievous bodily
harm. On Friday, Lydia van Niekerk, for Wagner, cross-examined State
witness King about the killing. The court heard that Wagner admitted
hitting Theologo with a rock on the hill where the ritual took
place.... http://www.iol.co.za/news/crime-courts/satanic-murder-accused-tells-of-beating-1.1517745


Witness not warned of satanic killing May 17 2013 by SAPA

Johannesburg - A youth present when a teenager was set alight in an
apparent satanic ritual was not warned he would witness a killing, a
State witness said on Friday. Jeremy King, 20, told the High Court
sitting at the Palm Ridge Magistrate's Court the youth was only told
King and his friends would perform a "soul-selling" ritual.

Kirsty Theologo, 18, and her friend, who was 14-years-old at the time,
were tied up, doused with petrol, and set alight on a hill in
Linmeyer, south of Johannesburg, on October 21, 2011. Theologo died in
hospital, but her friend survived.

King and Lester Moody confessed to the crime and were both sentenced
to 17 years in jail, five of which were suspended. The other four
accused - Harvey Isha, Robin Harwood, Lindon Wagner, and Courtney
Daniels - have pleaded not guilty to charges of murder, attempted
murder, and assault to cause grievous bodily harm....
http://www.iol.co.za/news/crime-courts/witness-not-warned-of-satanic-killing-1.1517657


Child rapist's jail term appeal fails Saturday, May 18, 2013 By Court
staff

A child rapist who posed as a holy man to subject three victims to
"satanic" sex abuse has failed to convince judges his 18-year prison
sentence is too long.

The man claimed he had black magic powers and told the children, who
were as young as 10, that if they did not submit to "religious
massage", evil spirits would remain in their bodies and their mothers
would die....
The man was jailed at Leicester Crown Court after he was convicted in
November 2011 of three counts of rape, one of another serious sexual
offence and four counts of sexual activity with a child.

Three senior judges at London's Court of Appeal this week rejected his
challenge against his sentence, saying he had committed the crimes
"under the cloak of religion" and deserved the sentence imposed. The
man had denied all the offences but was found guilty by a jury, with
the sentencing judge saying he had "deliberately frightened the
children" so he could carry out "satanic abuse"....
http://www.thisisleicestershire.co.uk/Child-rapist-s-jail-term-appeal-fails/story-19020011-detail/story.html



Loving parents. An utterly respectable home. So how did Rachel, 11,
fall prey to the Oxford sex gang?

Victim started not turning up for family suppers at 7.30pm
Lured into life of sex slavery by Oxford gang with gifts of
cocaine, cannabis, cigarettes and vodka
By age of 13, she had 700 men's names on Facebook
Mother: 'We did everything to try to keep her indoors, locking all
windows and doors at night' By Sue Reid 18 May 2013

....As her mother, Georgina, says today: ‘Rachel loved school and was
the teacher’s pet. She was excited about going to the big secondary
with her friends. She is the youngest of our big family and we doted
on her. We called her our baby.’

Yet five months after the holiday picture, Rachel’s childhood was
abruptly ended. Instead of returning home straight after school, she
started staying out in the park with the same group of girls who used
to come to her home for tea.

She would arrive late for the 7.30pm family supper. And — after a time
— she often did not come home at night and went missing for days on
end.
Now her horrified mother knows the reason for her daughter’s worrying
behaviour. She was being seduced by a predatory gang of paedophiles,
who lured her into a life of sex slavery by giving her gifts of
cocaine, cannabis, cigarettes and vodka.

By the age of 13, Rachel had more than 700 men’s names on her Facebook
page. Hundreds of others were sending text messages and even naked
photos of themselves to her pink mobile phone.
She changed her online identity to a Muslim name. And when she did
come home, she often had savage bruises and bites all over her face
and body....

Rachel was the youngest of six girls who bravely gave evidence at an
Old Bailey trial that ended this week as seven men from Oxford were
convicted for brutal sex assaults on them over eight years.
The men, five of Pakistani origin and two North African brothers, were
convicted of 23 rapes, 15 charges of rape conspiracy and nine of
child prostitution, as well as other offences including trafficking
the girls for sexual exploitation and having sex with a child.

Scandalously, police and social workers knew in 2005 that the Oxford
girls were being preyed on by the gang, but did little to stop the
nightmare unfolding before they finally started to investigate in
2010.

As with similar outrages in Rochdale, Derby, Rotherham and Telford in
Shropshire, where street-grooming gangs have been convicted
recently....
Georgina contacted Oxford social services hundreds of times to ask for
help with her out-of-control daughter and says they did not return her
calls.
She stormed down to their offices in Oxford and says she was ignored.
She phoned the police, who to their credit often went out searching
for Rachel, but officers (and social services) failed to tell Georgina
that a gang of men, predominantly British-born Pakistanis, was
operating a sex-grooming ring in the city and any white girl was at
risk from them....
Today, she is in the care of Oxford social services and living in
another part of the country. It is a unit where she is secure so the
gang cannot contact her — nor she them.

Aged 16, she is not allowed a mobile phone or computer access. She can
speak to her family only when a phone call is made for her by a warden
at the home.

Suffering from post-traumatic stress because of her five-year ordeal,
she is studying for her GCSEs and is visited by her mother
regularly....
Oxford police said this week that 60 other girls may have been abused
by 50 men from similar gangs in Oxford....
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2326381/Loving-parents-An-utterly-respectable-home-So-did-Rachel-11-fall-prey-Oxford-sex-gang.html