By LeoNardo Blair, Senior Reporter
Decrease than a one year after his wife Mica Miller’s suicide, Pastor John-Paul Miller of Sturdy Rock at Market Regular in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, has been accused of raping a 15-one year-ancient lady bigger than 25 years previously and sexually assaulting her all yet again in 2023.
The allegations in opposition to John-Paul Miller by the girl known as Jane Doe #1 from Indiana seem in a 43-page lawsuit filed in the Horry County Circuit Court docket in South Carolina Tuesday.
Named as defendants are Miller, his father, Reginald Wayne Miller, and their connected non secular organizations — All Countries Cathedral Church, Cathedral Baptist Church of the Out of the ordinary Strand and Sturdy Rock Ministries.
“For years, John-Paul Miller … and Reginald Wayne Miller. .. beget presented themselves as non secular non secular leaders. They constructed their reputations in the Myrtle Beach community and past as men of faith, dedicated to spreading God’s observe and practicing future church leaders. Nonetheless this image became as soon as a lie,” the lawsuit states.
“In the support of their non secular facade, John-Paul Miller and Reginald Wayne Miller engaged in sexual abuse and predatory conduct — customarily focusing on minors. They extinct their positions of energy to manipulate and exploit prone victims while concealing their actions from the final public.”
The Indiana girl is suing the defendants for negligence, civil conspiracy, assault and battery, infliction of emotional damage and violation of the South Carolina Unfair Alternate Practices Act.
The Millers are accused of working their ministries no longer correct to serve God but to extra their “predatory habits.”
“The churches and their linked entities operated without enough protections for minors, creating an atmosphere where abuse could presumably perhaps perhaps thrive. Upon recordsdata and perception, this became as soon as no longer accidental — it became as soon as piece of a calculated realizing to groom victims while simultaneously gaining the community’s belief and financial aid,” the complaint contends.
The lawsuit references Mica Miller’s April 27, 2024, suicide at Lunge River Mutter Park in Robeson County, North Carolina. Many of Pastor John-Paul Miller’s critics beget argued he played a job in his gradual wife’s death, which he has denied. He has no longer been charged in connection alongside with her death even after an FBI search of his home final November.
“Lately, the death of John-Paul Miller’s ex-wife, Mica Frances Miller, has over all yet again drawn attention to both John-Paul Miller and Reginald Wayne Miller,” the lawsuit states. “Mica Frances Miller’s relationship with John-Paul Miller became as soon as deeply terrified. Upon recordsdata and perception, it exemplified the energy and protect watch over he exercised over females in the church.”
“The Defendants — both in my idea and together — beget constructed, maintained, and concealed a system of sexual misconduct that harmed various minors, including Plaintiff Jane Doe #1,” the submitting added.
According to Jane Doe, on or about July 19, 1998, she encountered John-Paul Miller, a 19-one year-ancient childhood leader, in a hallway terminate to his father’s office on the Cathedral Baptist Church where they engaged in a “seemingly harmless conversation.”
John-Paul Miller is accused of forcing her into his father’s office, where he allegedly overpowered her earlier than transferring her to his truck on the property “where he raped her” on the age of 15.
“At the time of the assault, Plaintiff became as soon as a virgin,” the lawsuit says.
The sufferer claimed that in the months that followed, she struggled with shock, disgrace and ache, while exhibiting “clear indicators of trauma, including severe despair, social withdrawal from family and chums, declining tutorial efficiency and emotional damage and self-doubt.”
According to the lawsuit, Jane Doe became as soon as no longer equipped to successfully route of the rape she experienced on the time it took space, so she repressed it.
“At the time, she failed to completely comprehend the nature of what had took space to her or the extent of the damage it induced. The trauma became as soon as deeply buried, and for a protracted time, she had no aware recollection of the assault,” the lawsuit said.
It wasn’t except yet any other alleged abusive stumble upon with John-Paul Miller in 2023 while she became as soon as out with a buddy that the repressed memory came flooding aid.
“Despite being in a public surroundings, [John-Paul Miller] leaned into Jane Doe #1 as if to hug her and shoved his hand down her pants touching her genitals without consent,” the lawsuit notes.
Sworn affidavits from Alison Williams, John-Paul’s ex-wife, and Susan Miller, Reginald Wayne’s ex-wife, direct that both men had been sexually rotten with minors.
“Plaintiff is informed and believes that JPM brazenly admitted to conducting sexual misconduct with minor female individuals of Sturdy Rock Ministries, an admission that became as soon as corroborated by a pair of witnesses,” the lawsuit says.
“In her sworn affidavit, Alison Williams (formerly Miller) testified that JPM confessed to her that he had been sexually rotten with various underage female individuals of their church. JPM tried to account for his habits by blaming his hang historical past of childhood sexual abuse by his father, RWM,” it continues.
“Williams’ affidavit extra states that when JPM’s sexual misconduct became identified to the church management, he became as soon as ordered to be part of in a sexual dependancy rehabilitation program. Nonetheless, upon recordsdata and perception, he never complied.”
The submitting accuses John-Paul Miller and his church management of working “to suppress the allegations and silence victims, enabling his persisted management within the church.”
“This failure to analyze and allowing JPM to retain entry to young congregants allowed him to continue his predatory habits,” the lawsuit provides.
Contacted by MyHorryNews Wednesday, John-Paul Miller’s licensed professional Russell Prolonged said he had no touch upon the lawsuit. John-Paul Miller has declined to touch upon the allegations when reached by media retail outlets.
Court docket records beforehand reported by The Christian Post direct that earlier than her suicide, Mica Miller filed for divorce from her husband in October 2023, but the explanations weren’t said.
The case became as soon as in the smash disregarded in February. Nonetheless about a days later, Pastor Miller filed for “Separate Make stronger and Repairs,” searching for financial aid. Mica Miller would file for an identical aid in April 2024. A hearing became as soon as scheduled for June 5. On April 27, two days after she served her husband with divorce papers, Mica Miller became as soon as found stupid from a self-inflicted gunshot damage to her head in Lunge River Mutter Park in Orrum, North Carolina.
In a sworn affidavit shared on X by Protestia and filed as piece of her utility to serve as particular administrator for her sister’s property, Sierra Francis said Mica Miller had served her husband with divorce papers on April 25 and became as soon as having a perceive forward to being free of him.
“My sister became as soon as hopeful for her future after submitting for divorce from John-Paul,” Francis wrote in the affidavit.
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