"I don't know what you'll do madam. Give me some compensation or else I'll take sleeping pills and commit suicide. I'm not able to live. I just want my daughter back madam, please," a woman pleaded, as she hit her own head and fell at another woman's feet.

This was the scene that played out at Jagannadhapuram village in Tadepalligudem mandal of West Godavari district on Wednesday, 18 October.

Andhra Pradesh Women’s Commission chairperson Nannapaneni Rajakumari visited the village after a local media channel aired allegations that a pastor had sexually assaulted many women in the area.

The pastor in question was Didde Ebenezer, said to be around 40 years old.