A woman from Zimbabwe who had gone for seven years without sex cried in court.

Marry Ngwenya couldn’t withhold her emotions in front of resident magistrate, Ndumo Masuku when she accused her husband Petros Tshuma, a pastor with Zion Grace International, of not giving her bedroom food since 2010.

Instead, she says he sleeps with other women from his congregation.

“Your worship, I’m sexually abused by this man as he last had sex with me in 2010. If I ask him about the issue he would promise to make up for it but when it’s time for sex he simulates sickness then claims to be feeling pain in his stomach,” she said.

She added that he would also claim his testicles were swollen but had other partners to sleep with.

“What I know is that he enjoys sex with three ladies from our church. I have WhatsApp text messages to prove that,” she said.

She literally pleaded for sex in front of the magistrate.

“I’m a human being. I don’t survive on Bible verses and I need my husband to sleep with me. Now I lead an exaggerated life telling my fellow women that I’m enjoying my marriage while I’m sex starved,” she said in between sobs.

However, the husband admitted the blame.

“I love my wife but I have a problem, when I engage in sex my stomach starts to bite as a result I feel an intense pain and due to that I had to stop. It’s not true that I’m in love with other women. My wife saw text messages from the women who wanted counselling on their marriages, due to that she quickly concluded that I’m in love with them,” he said.

At last the magistrate ordered the husband not to sexually and emotionally abuse his wife.