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A satanist teenage girl who confessed to killing her friend was sentenced to an effective eight years in juvenile prison by the High
Court in Johannesburg on Friday morning.
Judge Geraldine Borchers imposed a sentence of 10 years, two of them suspended, and ordered that it be served in the juvenile
section of the Leeuwkop prison.
In a statement, the teenager confessed to killing Kea-mogetswe Sefu-laro on the first of March near Randfontein, after Sefularo decided to
leave a cult.
The girl stabbed Sefularo in the chest, neck and stomach, egged on by her 19-year-old boyfriend.
Sefularo later died of her injuries in hospital.
The court heard that the girl had hoped to gain financially from satanism. She believed her spirit would be able to get into key holes and
into a bank where she could steal money, said Borchers.
The judge said nothing suggested that the girl was not in control of her actions when she killed her friend.
She said had the accused been 10 years older, she would have imposed life imprisonment.
