Black Jesus Chopped To Death In Papa New Guinea

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A cult leader known as "Black Jesus", who was
suspected of cannibalism, has been chopped
to death in a remote Papua New Guinea
village after a five-month manhunt, reports
said Friday.
According to AFP, Steven Tari, a convicted
defiler, had been on the run since escaping
from a prison in Madang in the Pacific nation's
east during a mass break-out with 48 others in
March.
Madang police chief Sylvester Kalaut said that
Tari and one of his followers were killed at a
village about 20 kilometres (12 miles) outside
Madang on Thursday as they were attacking a
young woman.
"He is now dead and this could be the fate of
the others who are also on the run from
authorities and I am warning and strongly
urging those escapees to surrender
themselves to authorities," Kalaut told the
PNG Post-Courier.
Tari, a failed Lutheran pastor who was widely
known as Black Jesus, was found guilty in 2010
of defiling girls who belonged to his Christian-
based sect and sentenced to up to 10 years.
At the time, he had thousands of village
followers, including a core of armed warriors
to protect him, in what is commonly referred
to in PNG as a "cargo cult".
As part of his "culture ministry", he preached
that young girls were to be "married" to him as
it was God's prophecy.
Kalaut said the woman Tari was in the process
of attacking was "a flower girl tricked into
joining the cult", adding that angry villagers
had surrounded him and his companion and
killed them.
His death follows that of a young high-school
girl about a week ago — a murder alleged to
have been carried out by Tari.
When he was captured in 2007, there were
widespread allegations that his cult also
practised cannibalism and sacrificial blood
rituals, but police only charged him with r*pe.
PNG is a sprawling nation where black magic,
sorcery and cannibalism sometimes occur.
Last year, police arrested dozens of people
linked to an alleged cannibal cult accused of
killing at least seven people, eating their
brains raw and making soup from their
penises.