THE "Archbishop" of a Pentecostal church sweated and rubbed himself as he gave a deaconess a lesson in how to arouse her husband, a jury has been told.
Walter Masocha, 51, known as "Daddy" and "The Prophet" by members of the Agape for All Nations Church invited the woman into his office in Stirling following a "couples' conference" held in December 2012 by the church in Leyland, Lancashire.
Falkirk Sheriff Court was told the conference was a "couples' retreat", based on the church's doctrine about marriage.
The 32-year-old mother-of-four, who was present with her husband and a friend, said Masocha had preached from the pulpit saying there were demons present, and they were going into people.
She said: "I knew he was speaking about me and my friend. I wanted to leave, then my husband grabbed me.
"I took a glass and smashed it."
She said she was pulled to the floor in front of 200 to 300 people.
She said: "My husband was saying restrain her, put her down."
She said after the conference she visited Masocha at his luxury home, Cosyneuk House, at Sauchieburn, near Stirling, where she claimed he came up to her and started kissing her neck before inviting her to his office in the city.
She said: "He asked me to come, almost for deliverance, because of what had happened [at the conference].
"We went to the office. The conversation we had in the office was very sexual. My husband had stopped being intimate with me, so I was saying to him my husband didn't love me and didn't come to me any more.
"Then he started to demonstrate what I needed to do to my husband to make him interested and get him back.
"Though he was fully clothed, he was demonstrating to me what I needed to do to my husband. It was very inappropriate.
"He said 'don't tell your husband I have told you to do these things, but do them anyway.
"He was sitting on the chair and rubbing himself and told me that was what I should do when I go home to my husband.
"He was sweating a lot. He took a towel and used it to wipe himself, then gave it to me."
The woman said she left the church in July 2014, after members of her family called an ambulance to a service she was attending at one of Agape's branch churches in Wigan, Lancashire, and told paramedics she needed to be sectioned.
Prosecutor Alison Montgomery asked her: "Were you sectioned?"
The woman, a university-trained nurse, replied: "No.
"The paramedics concluded it was a case of public humiliation."
She said her in-laws then told the ambulance crew that if they did not take her away and lock her up, they would call the police.
She said: "It was without doubt one of the worst days of my life. I have never been so humiliated and stripped of my dignity. My sister-in-law was saying my children were malnourished and should be taken into care."
She added: "I felt Walter Masocha had plotted this and he actually wanted me to be locked away."
Masocha, of Sauchieburn, denies sexually assaulting the woman between 1 April, 2012, and March 30, 2013.
Further charges, which he also denies, allege that he induced a 12 year girl to sex-massage his body with oils and engaged in sexual activity with a 14-year-old girl.
He is said to have committed the offences at the Church, at his home in Sauchieburn on the outskirts of the city, and at the plush Crieff Hydro Hotel in Perthshire.
The trial, before Sheriff Kenneth McGowan and jury, continues.
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