A NORTHERN Province Zionist priest allegedly castrated a five-year-old boy while the child was still alive. Jan Skosana, 33, of Winterveldt in the North-West Province, made a brief appearance on a murder charge in the Mankweng Magistrate’s Court on Monday. Skosana was arrested on Sunday, allegedly with the genitals in a plastic bag, when security guards at the Zion Christian Church headquarters at Moria searched him. He was not asked to plead, bail was denied and Skosana has been remanded to December 20 in the Ga-Rankuwa Magistrate’s Court. Skosana allegedly lured the boy onto a hill after he promising to pray for him, then told the child to close his eyes for the prayer and cut him. The child died from his injuries.