The ex-wife of pastor John-Paul Miller filed emergency court docket paperwork late final month alleging he had a number of minor victims.
The documentation – filed on Could 28 – included graphic and disturbing new allegations in opposition to Miller, who got here beneath a cloud of contempt within the wake of the suicide of his second spouse, Mica Miller, final month. Some say he drove her to dying.
Miller, 30, was discovered useless at Lumbee River State Park in North Carolina on April 27 from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
The brand new submitting comes from household court docket in Horry County, South Carolina, 40 miles away – the place Mica initiated divorce proceedings lower than two weeks earlier than she died, and hit her husband with the mandatory papers a number of days later.
Attorneys for Miller have denied claims he abused his second spouse and ‘groomed’ her, after assembly her at his church on the age of 15. Within the new submitting, first spouse Alison Williams made related allegations, combating to achieve custody of their two teenage kids, born in 2008 and 2009.
The documentation – filed on Could 28 – included graphic and disturbing new allegations in opposition to North Carolina pastor John-Paul Miller, who got here beneath a cloud of contempt within the wake of the suicide of his second spouse, Mica Miller (proper), final month. Some consider he drove her to dying
Miller, 30, was discovered useless at Lumbee River State Park in North Carolina on April 27 from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, lower than two weeks after submitting for divorce
News13 was the one to seek out the information, which additionally depict John-Paul’s infidelities.
That features an affair with Mica that started whereas she labored as a nanny for Miller and Alison’s children, after assembly at his church in The Market Frequent.
The submitting additionally alleges that Miller usually employed prostitutes and was ‘sexually inappropriate with a number of underage feminine members’ of Strong Rock, the place Williams labored in 2015 as Miller’s assistant.
Mica joined the church a number of years earlier than when she was 15, wedding ceremony Miller’s greatest buddy and fellow church staffer Jeremy Deas three years later.
That marriage led to divorce when Mica was 21, two years earlier than she married Miller in 2017. Williams and Miller divorced in 2016.
At that time, Mica remained on pleasant phrases with Alison and her stepchildren, in accordance with court docket paperwork, which search to grant Williams rapid non permanent sole custody of their two youngest whereas contact between them and Miller be suspended, in addition to everlasting custody ultimately.
That is till Miller completes a psychological and parental health examination, because the troubled Palmetto State non secular chief continues to come back beneath scrutiny.
The paperwork additional contend Miller tightly managed his Market Frequent church for years, purging its membership rolls to the purpose the place he had complete management of its day-to-day actions.
In a single excerpt, Williams – who’s searching for to amend a joint custodial settlement primarily based on ‘attainable imminent hazard that may very well be induced to the [children] – writes: ‘In 2015, [Miller] was the pastor of Strong Rock Ministries and I served as his assistant to pastoral duties.
The submitting, from Miller’s first spouse Alison Williams, additional alleges that Miller usually employed prostitutes and was ‘sexually inappropriate with a number of underage feminine members’ of Strong Rock (seen right here), the place Williams labored in 2015 as Miller’s assistant
‘We separated after I discovered [Miller] was having an adulterous affair with out former nanny, Mica Miller.
‘[Miller] advised me that along with his affair with Mica, he employed prostitutes, and been sexually inappropriate with a number of underage feminine members of our church.
‘He blamed his immoral sexual behaviors on the sexual abuse he skilled for years, by his father, Wayne Miller.
‘The church requested that [Miller] enroll in an intensive sexual habit program, nonetheless regardless of him promising me that he would, to my information, that by no means occurred,’ it continues, earlier than describing how ‘the affair between [Miller] and Mica tore our private and church household aside.’
‘[The affair] induced an possible quantity of ache and discord within the lives of so many harmless individuals who actually trusted and believed in [my husband],’ Alison, who was wed to Miller for 16 years, writes.
‘On the time, the church discovered about [Miller’s] affair with Mica, the church was working beneath the idea the previous bylaws of our church had been amended [the ones made by Miller], and there we had been working beneath new bylaws.
‘When the council voted to have [Miller] quickly step down from the top pastor place so he may search therapy… and concentrate on his restoration, as an alternative of following the course of our church leaders, [Miller] held a gathering and knowledgeable the council the brand new bylaws had been invalid.
‘Subsequently, pursuant to the previous bylaws, he had 100% decision-making authority.
‘That was the primary time members of our church had a possibility to see [Miller] for who he actually was, and have become gravely involved about his integrity and the monetary construction of the church,’ the submitting continues.
‘In consequence, nearly our whole congregation left the church, and [Miller] started his quest to recruit new members.’
The transfer, furthermore, allowed her under-fire ex to ‘function Strong Rock Ministries solely at his course,’ Williams writes
Williams’ criticism goes on to say that Miller’s ‘psychological well being and deviant sexual addictions’ solely worsened after their marriage ended
Round that point, she discovered the identities of the ‘minor feminine members of the church’ with whom Miller had allegedly ‘been inappropriate with’, she stated – recalling how she reached out to every of them and urged them to go to the police.
They allegedly declined out of worry of retribution from the pastor, nonetheless, leaving her to contact legislation enforcement herself to file a report.
As an alternative of an investigation, although, Williams’s intervention garnered a lukewarm response from Myrtle Seashore cops.
In line with Williams, they advised her nobody would consider her story as a result of ‘[Miller] was a well known pastor and [because] we had been in the course of a divorce’.
Her ex would marry Mica months later.
Williams’ criticism goes on to state that Miller’s “psychological well being and deviant sexual addictions’ solely worsened after their marriage ended, as a result of his alleged flings with minor church members whereas additionally seeing Mica (seen with Miller right here)
Issues then died down for the following three years, Alison says within the doc -before describing an abrupt shift within the pastor’s habits in 2021.
Round that point, ‘arguments between [Miller] and Mica would happen in entrance of [her and [Miller’s] kids,’ after which ‘[Miller’s] psychological well being more and more deteriorated.’
‘At instances, he has foregone his designated intervals of visitation,’ Williams writes, ‘primarily based upon his personal assertions of not being mentally effectively sufficient for the youngsters to be in his care.
She additionally claims Miller has used the be part of custodial designation as a mechanism to harass, threaten, and management her, and writes how the events haven’t been in a position to successfully talk or co-parent in consequence.
Williams goes on to alleged that ‘it might be detrimental to the protection, welfare, and emotional well being of each [her] and the minor kids to proceed sharing joint custody,’ and that ‘primarily based upon info and perception, [Miller] has continued to interact in deviant sexual behaviors.
‘[He] has uncovered the events’ minor kids to an immoral and unsafe surroundings,’ she writes at one other level, earlier than mentioning the latest the dying of Miller,
She firmly believes given the ‘circumstances’ and ‘tragic details’ surrounding the case, ‘putting the youngsters within the care of [Miller] would [put] them imminent hazard,’ and writes how the 30-year-old reached out to her to ‘[share] intimate particulars relating to the behaviors of [Miller] and considerations relating to the protection of the minor kids.’
She contends that till the time of Mica’s dying, ‘ her successor supplied a ‘security internet’ for the youngsters throughout their intervals of visitation, however ‘primarily based upon her latest tragic dying, that’s now not attainable.’
Mica’s physique was discovered at 4:23 p.m. EST on April 27 at North Carolina’s Lumber River State Park, in a swampy space roughly greater than 100 toes from the place shell casings and her belongings had been found.
Mica died lower than two weeks after submitting for divorce from her husband – and fewer than 48 hours after her husband was served with divorce papers.
After a health worker’s evaluation of the scene, Miller’s dying was formally dominated a suicide, a ruling additionally made due to the discharge of a 9-1-1 name she made previous to supposedly capturing herself within the head with a gun she bought hours earlier.
Miller has been cleared of any wrongdoing, however given the unusual method through which her husband broke the information of her passing to their congregation – instructing them to, ‘go away church quietly and do not speak concerning the announcement right here within the constructing’ – suspicions of foul play have prevailed.
Mica’s household have argued her physique was ‘positioned’ on the a part of the park the place it was discovered by police, suggesting her suicide was ‘staged.’
A listening to is slated for June 6 on Williams’ custody submitting, the place a decide will rule if a psychiatric examination of Miller is critical.
