An infamous cult leader known as "Black Jesus", who was suspected of
cannibalism, has been chopped to death in a remote Papua New Guinea
village, reports said.
Steven Tari, a convicted Molester, 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 this year.
Sylvester
Kalaut, the Madang police chief, said on Friday that Tari and one of
his followers were killed at a village about 20km 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 Molesting 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.

Daniel Oikhena, who hid in the wheel well of Arik Air aircraft used for flight W3 544 from Benin Airport to the Murtala Muhammed Airport, MMA, Lagos has finally achieved the desires of his heart as De Raufs, a volunteer group extolling the virtues of Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, Governor of Osun State, has volunteered to sponsor Daniel Oikhena up to university level and help him realise his dream of travelling by air legitimately.
In a statement signed by the Director General of the group, Comrade Amitolu sh*ttu, the group is ready to give scholarship to Daniel up to university level and help him realise his dream of travelling by air legitimately.
Shittu said: “Genius and ambitious citizen of our country must not be suffocated on the alter of political and bureaucratic enforcement. The little boy’s ambition should be nurtured through qualitative education and the group is ready to give the boy all the necessary support to make his dream a reality.
“We sincerely willing to offer him the scholarship to encourage thousands of teenagers who are cerebral and ambitious. The leaders in Nigeria fail on their part to see the potential of the little boy.