A girl who says she was assaulted by Pastor John-Paul Miller of Stable Rock at Market Frequent church in South Carolina as she protested with a gaggle in search of justice surrounding the passing of his late spouse by suicide is now talking out after he was launched from jail final Thursday.
Police in Myrtle Seashore charged the 45-year-old Miller with third-degree assault and battery months after the suicide of his spouse, Mica Miller, final Wednesday. And Sandra Caron alleged to WMBF that she was his sufferer.
Caron mentioned she was with a gaggle of ladies protesting on the Horry-Georgetown Technical Faculty’s campus in The Market Frequent final Wednesday when Miller got here up behind them and commenced recording. She mentioned she didn’t understand it was him at first, however as soon as she did, issues bought testy.
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She alleges she put her hand behind her again, and Miller tapped her baseball cap along with his cellphone.
“He’s this close to me, and he says, ‘You called?’ And I said, ‘OK, but you’re in my…’ And he goes, ‘What are you going to do about it? What are you going to do about it?’ Twice,” Caron mentioned.
The dispute was captured on video. Miller’s legal professional, Russell Lengthy, shared it with WMBF. He mentioned the protestors who need him held criminally answerable for his late spouse’s suicide have been “baiting him to do something” and “trying their best to drive him crazy.” Authorities dominated Mica Miller’s dying a suicide by self-inflicted gunshot wound and haven’t implicated her husband in her dying.
“The bigger problem is this group of people won’t leave him alone,” Lengthy mentioned. “They will not. They’ve driven the church to death, and they’re trying to drive him to death. And begging the city to help, they won’t do anything for him. He has nowhere to turn.”
Miller’s arrest comes lower than every week after the FBI performed “court-authorized law enforcement activity” at a house linked to Miller, an FBI spokesperson advised WPDE. A number of packing containers of proof, together with what seemed to be pc tools, had been seized, News13 mentioned.
Court docket data beforehand reported by The Christian Submit present that Mica Miller filed for divorce from her husband in October 2023, however the causes weren’t acknowledged.
The case was ultimately dismissed in February, however a number of days later, Pastor Miller filed for “Separate Support and Maintenance,” in search of monetary assist. Mica Miller would file for comparable assist in April. A listening to was scheduled for June 5. On April 27, two days after she served her husband with divorce papers, Mica Miller was discovered useless from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to her head in Lumber River State Park in Orrum, North Carolina.
In a sworn affidavit shared on X by Protestia and filed as a part of her utility to function particular administrator for her sister’s property, Sierra Francis mentioned Mica Miller had served her husband with divorce papers on April 25 and was wanting ahead to being freed from him.
“My sister was hopeful for her future after filing for divorce from John-Paul,” Francis wrote within the affidavit.
“My sister also expressed to me that she was fearful that she would not make it to the divorce and that her life would be taken from her. It is my belief, based on conversations with my sister, that she told multiple people, including other family members,” she defined.
“Mica stated to me on many occasions, ‘if I end up with a bullet in my head, it was not by me, it was JP.’ Mica forwarded a family group text message notifying us that Mr. Miller was served the divorce papers on April 25, 2024,” Francis added. “On April 27, 2024, my sister, Mica A. Miller, was found dead as a result of a gunshot wound in Lumberton, North Carolina.”
Pastor Miller’s bond is ready at $776, and he’s scheduled to return to court docket on Dec. 10.
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