When Jacub Jahl arrived in Tanzania from the Czech Republic, he introduced himself as a passionate humanitarian determined to uplift vulnerable communities in the remote villages of Moshi. Promising to bring hope and opportunity, Jahl quickly gained the trust of local residents. But behind the facade of compassion was a far more sinister truth: he was not a saviour, but a predator.
This investigative report, based on an independent documentary by Voice of Freedom, uncovers the dark reality of Jahl’s presence in Tanzania—a story of deception, abuse, and shattered lives.
Jahl’s entry into Moshi was marked by promises to renovate community centres and support underprivileged children. He first approached the Nature and Skills Centre, a local initiative focused on rescuing children from vulnerable backgrounds. Staff and community members welcomed him with open arms, unaware that he was concealing a disturbing agenda.
“When he arrived in Moshi, he had come from Dar el Salaam, and introduced himself as working with kids, and was looking for a center to keep children, which we embraced and told him about our centre. That was the beginning of our contact and working together, he promised to help us. What we never witnessed,” Bob, a staff member at the centre stated.
According to multiple interviews, including those with staff, guardians, and survivors, Jahl’s involvement quickly turned the once-promising centre into a site of fear and trauma. Reports include allegations of rape, sodomy, physical abuse, and drug use, all inflicted under the guise of humanitarian work.
Theresa, the founder of Nature and Skills Centre, recalled how Jahl initially appeared well-meaning. Over time, however, she and her team began to observe erratic behaviour, including heavy drug use and aggression toward children.
“He presented himself as a helper. But we started noticing disturbing signs—his use of marijuana, his temper, and how he distanced himself from the children except when taking photos,” she said.
Joseph, who worked as Jahl’s translator, accused him of physically assaulting the children and using funds from European donors to fuel his drug habits and lure young boys.
“Money from the Czech Republic was not helping the children but instead used to fund his personal vices,” Joseph said, adding that Jacub would buy miraa, drugs, and pay boys for sex.
The home remains in dilapidated state, Bob attributed the fall to Jahl, who came with hopes of renovating and improving the structures he found shattered, a promise which was never realized.
A mission sponsored by Jana Finikova, a Slovakian, turned into a den of abuse for many by Jahl, who has successfully dubbed Tatiana Finikova, who became his partner, she realized that the ‘orphanage’ the first projected to be promoted by the Czech Slovak Africa was a scam, after running for close to two years.
“It was two years when I realized that the project he was promoting was not real, not an orphanage, but a community centre where children gathered and played, which he knew but kept us in the dark,” Finikova said.
After days of close observation, Theresa said that they realized he was into drugs, as he was spotted using Marijuana (Bhang), and characters of a mentally disturbed person.
“Jacob is a very bad person; he used to beat up children at the orphanage. The money that came from Czech was not helping the children, but used for buying drugs like Miraa and buying young boys to indulge with him in sexual activities,” Joseph, who worked as Jahl translator, said.
According to Joseph, many complied with his advances, owing to the high levels of poverty in Tanzania, who willingly obliged to his advances with his lots of money, which trapped many young men, blatantly calling his sponsors and donors ‘fools, when questioned about using the money to help the vulnerable children.
Bob says Jahl rarely interacted with the children, instead he took photos and videos of the children, to further lure his sponsors for his ‘good deeds’ to the community in Moshi. In a well calculated and planned move, Jahl scheduled his posts in intervals, indicating what the children needed.
Further emphasizing Jahl’s planned scam; Fikinova said his plan yielded fruits, as it was easy to convince people with videos and photos of children asking for food.
“Jahl knew how to use it to exploit people, as anyone will be touched with videos and photos of children in Africa begging for food,” Tatiana explained.
Despite collecting huge sums of money, Jahl did nothing to progress the centre, instead he disoriented the facility, chasing earlier employers by Theresa and leaving all the bills on her, including paying the rent for the centre.
“We believed he had money, but after his entry into the centre, things turned from bad to worse, he chased away those I had employed and even some children left. I was left to pay the rent to run the facility. Children sometimes went hungry,” Theresa explained.
The first victim, a boy identified as Abdul, who was about 11-years when the incident happened was forced into the act by Jahl according to Joseph. Sadly, the affected children further spread same sex when they went back to school, as he used to lock himself with Abdul and Exalda, where he molested them for hours.
Distressed and shaken after seeing the photo of Jahl, the children narrated a chilling and horrific tales they went through, from being forced to undress, injected with drugs to go unconscious, to being raped defiling their innocent, without taking into consideration of their age, by someone they trusted of rescuing them from the life of poverty.
The children said he used to hang out with them, despite having his room; he often sneaked in and slept in their room, often half naked, with his bottom naked and a t-shirt. He would inject them once they become rebellious, ranged with anger he would further calm himself down with the drugs.
“I saw him taking drugs; he would inject himself, which he used to carry around inside his bag. He picked boys inside a room, who did not speak up after coming out,” a child narrated.
After finding out the assault the children underwent at 3am inflicted by Jahl, Theresa said she kept her children from going to the centre. The act made children afraid of him, with the society coming to terms that they were deceived by Jahl.
“I’m afraid of Jahl, he does not love children. When angry, he used to throw things around. Once he was annoyed he would inject himself in front of us and calm down,” another girl narrated.
A more distressing revelation of girl raped by Jahl, tortured with a knife, bruising her breast, a permanent mark she has to learn living with it, an injustice she endured at an early age, as her predator walks free accusing her of tainting his ‘image’ as anti-cultist activist.
Distressed father coming to terms of his son witnessing a man he handed his child for protection sexually assaulting him, as he fended for his family is something no parent wants to witness, his victims saying jail is not enough for his acts in Moshi and Dar el Salaam.
But how will they get justice, Jahl throwing insults, even as he remains a person of interest in Tanzania Authority, while he remains training the society back in his country making media appearances as an anti-cultist protecting the life of children.
The question remains when will justice be served?
This story has been documented from an investigative report done by Voice of freedom, a team of young independent journalists.
