HARARE – Just days after a husband and wife team tearfully accused Prophetic Healing and Deliverance Ministries founder Prophet Walter Magaya of raping their daughter, the alleged victim has recorded a video denying that she was raped.

Chenai Agatha Maenzanise-Hassan appears with her husband, Christian, in the three-minute video in which she asks people not to waste their sympathies on her because she was never raped.

“Firstly, I would like to clear the air. I was not raped. If I was, I would have commented on this, I would have mentioned something,” Chenai says in the self-recorded video, shot inside a stationary vehicle.

“This just has to stop. You’re not helping anyone. All you are doing is destroying lives,” Chenai continued in comments that appeared aimed at her parents, Molly and Godfrey Maenzanise, who went public with their claims in a video released last week.

Chenai and Christian said they had been married for two months and their relationship was still in “honeymoon phase”. The couple appeared happy together, and admitted they had sometimes found the intense media and public interest “fun”.

“Whoever came up with this is using it for their personal gain,” said Chenai. “We don’t want visits, especially from the angry mob. We don’t want that,” she added in response to an internet lobby for Zimbabweans to march to Magaya’s church and confront him over the alleged rape.

Chenai’s parents claimed that she had been raped by Magaya after they went to his church in January 2013. Magaya, claimed Molly and Godfrey, had “adopted” their two daughters and offered to pay their school fees arrears, but within months Chenai was pregnant before she turned 18.

“My daughter was sexually abused by Prophet Walter Magaya,” Molly said.

Chenai, in her video, does not say if she was in a sexual relationship with Magaya, and does not speak about her daughter’s father.

Molly and Godfrey say they quit Magaya’s church to form their own after finally learning of the alleged sex attacks on their daughter sometime in 2016.

They said they were motivated to speak out because Magaya was not looking after his alleged child, a girl now six.

Magaya is currently on trial for rape, but that case faces collapse after the alleged victim – now in Germany – wrote to prosecutors through her lawyer saying she had made up the allegations and does not desire to testify.