*Uh oh, the plot thickens …
According to the Atlanta Journal Constitution, the 15-year-old daughter of megachurch pastor Creflo Dollar Jr. told a 911 operator on Friday morning that she felt “threatened” being in the house with her father.
Then she went on to say the alleged violent altercation between them was not an isolated incident.
The paper says in the audio recording, the girl adds, “It was not the first time it’s happened.” Sounding calm and speaking directly, she said her father “punched … and choked” her.
At that point, Fayette Sheriff’s deputies were dispatched to the Dollar residence where, after a brief investigation, they arrested Pastor Dollar and charged him with simple battery, family violence and cruelty to children. Later Friday morning he was released on $5,000 bond.
The televangelist and author, speaking from the pulpit at World Changers Church International Sunday morning, denied the allegations.
“I want you to hear it personally from me: All is well in the Dollar household,” said the former educational therapist, who received a standing ovation from faithful congregants. “A family conversation with our youngest daughter got emotional. Things escalated from there.”
Dollar said he neither choked or punched his daughter and explained away the abrasions on her neck as remnants from a case of eczema.
“I should have never been arrested,” he said.
Dollar, who teaches that God will bless the faithful with material rewards, has previously endorsed corporal punishment.
“There’s a place for it, and it should only be administered with temperance,” he said in a 2006 sermon.
Though church members appeared to accept their pastor’s account, Dollar’s 19-year-old daughter, who witnessed the altercation, told police her younger sister was telling the truth.
Whoa! Obviously somebody’s lying and at the very, very least, the pastor now has an image problem.
Read/learn more at AJC.com.
I was right on the money….this wasn’t their first major fallout. I believe their may be some major trouble going on for awhile and this incident broke the camel’s back. Im surprised his wife Taffy has not been vocal at all. Time will tell if there is more behind this.
Diva, you’re not by yourself, I knew damn well NOBODY wakes up at the crack of 1am, to go to a party if they’ve never done it before (snuck out). His daughter told him: “You put your hands on me again and I’m calling the cops, and everybody’ll know you ain’t shit”!! taffi ain’t saying shit because he (sounding likle Harpo) TOLD HER she couldn’t/wouldn’t. I am not a follower but, I did on an occasion watch them for 15 or 20min and, to me she came off as unsure of herself (like a very young novice), skittish. There are no partners in that marriage. I don’t see why he won’t just come out with it, his congregation is 200% behind him, and if anyone loses it’s taffi, if she doesn’t (right or wrong) support him, she’s gone. Bet SHE’S catching heat for raising a spoiled assed child/ren. You know she’s a “daddy’s girl”
Of course it’s not the first time he had to whup your ass. What other option does he have, having to deal with a rebellious teenager like you?
It sounds like she needs to be removed from the home…
If the girl said anything like what ‘nightshift’ wrote then she needs to leave the home. It’s going to take a lot of work for the family to put this behind them.
“You put your hands on me again and I’m calling the cops, and everybody’ll know you ain’t shit”
An old family friend is a very prominent minister in my hometown and so is his wife. Their children were raised in an affluent environment and I believe they were very good parents to them. However, PKs and teachers’ kids are known to cut loose and rebel like all the others. Creflo’s daughter sounds like a brat who’d love nothing more than to embarrass him.
I agree! Comes a point where you either live by your parents rules or your fresh ass can hit the bricks!!!
I will beat her ass for him. That little heifer has me so pissed and she’s just the current poster child for all of this drama. Keep telling fools that we gotta take it back to the old school, law be damned; our children and children’s children are at stake.
Before folks start supporting Creflo and condemning the daughter, there is a report that was put out by the Sheriff’s office that tells a different tale. http://www.scribd.com/doc/96436578/Creflo-Dollar-Arrest-Report . Apparently, Creflo’s daughter did not confront her father and walked away from him into another room. Creflo followed his crying daughter, questioned her and then proceed to attack her. The older daughter backs up her younger sister’s account.
As far as I am concerned, disciplining your child is one thing but to choke and beat the child with a shoe is excessive. If he was a father who did not have a mega church, I think the reaction would be different. I’m all for correcting a child but there are too many assumptions that this child was ‘fast’ and deserve what she got. No matter how ‘fast’ a girl is, she does not deserve to be treated this way. He has too much money where he can get this girl counseling. I also find Taffi’s silence interesting, which means, this was done before.
Yep, he likely tried to beat her ass before..and she likely deserved it.
Any child who tells me threatens to call the police for disciplining them needs to get the fk outta my house.
That’s the problem right there. She felt like she could call the cops…just because.
Wheretheydothatat?
Choking and beating a girl with a shoe is ‘discipline’?? If her mother could not protect her what other recourse did her daughter have? Using violence does not mean that that will make a child bend to your will. If he did this before, it’s obvious his method is not working. He could be just making the situation worse. Then if, God forbid, she becomes a druggie or alcoholic because of the abuse she suffered, we’ll say, she deserved it because of xyz. Beating the hell outta of child continuiously is not the solution.
In response to my mother saying, “You get on my got damn nerves.” I replied, “nobody told you to open up your legs and have me.”
Well I was choked, thrown in the closet and my dad finally freed me from underneath a flurry of fists. Then too, I threatened to call the police and what did she do? She handed me the phone and FORCED me to dial 911.
LOL, I am crying here!!!!!! That was funny. And you deserve every bit of it. How you going to be that disrespectful to your mom??!!!!
I did. But I actually thought she didn’t hear me. Hell, I was three rooms removed in my bedroom and she was in the kitchen.
Through a miraculous ability to hear through walls and down a hallway, she was in my face no later than I had finished my thought.
So it went like, “….legs and have me’ then BAM! my black ass went down.
That explains a LOT!
Sure does explain a lot, ez.
That’s messed up. I think that’s excessive but what you said was disrespectful. Plus, I’m sure your mother didn’t do that on a regular basis. That’s the point I’m trying to make here. This was obviously done to Dollar’s daughter more than once. Because it happened to you, it doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s right that it should happened to Dollar’s daughter. We don’t know the whole story except what is reported and what Creflo stated.
Yep, it was messed up and yeah I deserved it. No my mother didn’t do it on the regular…but I did give her and anybody else (teachers, n’bors, family) mad mouth..on the regular.
What works for one child might not work for another..and they could be in the same household. My sister never got it like I did.
I wonder would you have the same level of problem w/this had Creflo did this to his son? What say you?
You’re right, Mus. I don’t have the whole story but I feel the same way if it was a male. Raising your hand to hit your parent is one thing & I do believe that the parent has the right to strike back. But again, I’m still looking to see what the girl did that was so egregaous that warranted her to be choked, slapped and hit with a shoe. That’s a bit much after she told her father ‘I don’t want to talk to you right now’.
These comments here to me point to 2 distressing things.
One people will defend a point no matter what the alleged evidence says to the contrary,whoever broke this story seemingly didn’t get all the facts correct
2nd it points to why there is so much damn violence in our community and society quite frankly.Our response to everything is violence,even if the violence is directed toward a female,people say she deserved it,some people say Rihanna deserved it.Sad!!
Herbs, you really said that to moms? LMFAO at that scenario! You were wildin’. Herbs, you’re
the homey and all, but you let moms choke and sock you? SMH! LOL!
Yep, she always said, “that piece of pink flesh between your lips will be your main problem.”
I mean come on, there’s a problem w/my mouth?…Me?
I agree with discipline but, he obviously had a “wrastlin’” flash-back. I’m sure he could have done worse if not stopped but, sounds like he tried to-go-toe-to-toe with a guy (or taffi). And that’s not cool. Maybe we shouldn’t be calling her “fast” but, I-M-O: a 15y/o + 1am = (fast-assed-heiffer), CLASS DISMISSED. Maybe next time, (and there will be one), HE should call the cops. Taking the “higher-road” looks better than fighting in the gutter, for public consumption. Y’all know I like scuttle-butt, but this isn’t good.
LOL @ scuttle-butt. Well, there is something there that made this young lady think it was okay to go out at 1 am to a party. With Creflo & his wife trapising all over the country, making bank in the ‘name of the lord’, exactly what time did he have to take of his children? See, they can’t have both ways. This child probably was raised with a nanny or bounced around from relative to relative and didn’t have a conducive relationship with either parent. Now, he wants ‘respect’ and wants to beat his child for it. Not going to work. My friend is from the old school and she remembers how her father used to beat her brother for staying out late or any other infraction. Instead of her brother adhering to her father, it made him worse. He just ‘took’ the beating and continued to do what he wanted to do. Sometimes, ‘beating’ does not work and too many of us got that ‘old school/slavery ideology’ of beating the hell outta of child constantly to get them to do what we want. All these ‘beating downs’ are not healthy, physically or mentally.
With Creflo & his wife trapising all over the country, making bank in the ‘name of the lord’, exactly what time did he have to take of his children?
You can make that argument about any “high profile” parent, even the POTUS and FLOTUS.
This child probably was raised with a nanny or bounced around from relative to relative and didn’t have a conducive relationship with either parent. Now, he wants ‘respect’ and wants to beat his child for it. Not going to work
You sure you don’t have the whole story? Sounds like you do.
I was raised by my mother and because of my mouth, my principal was prepared to send me to a school for delinquents. I’m sure that many would assume that my mom wasn’t involved in my life and only “later” began to demand respect.
Not the case. Not at all.
@NYCsoul, why does it got to be slavery ideology. It seem every time someone don’t agree with something it has to be a slavery ideology. Most black people who believes in disciplinary action is based on Biblical principle and nothing to do with slavery. I was raised on getting a beating if my brother and I didn’t behave and it taught us discipline and it didn’t killed us and we both have grown up to be just fine. And I am not saying you have to beat a child so punishment works then use that but I don’t fault any parent who is raising children and providing them with a good home and not abusive to them but then that child turns around and want to rule the parent and not listen and being disrespectful then I don’t fault the parent for beating that behind.
There is nowhere in the bible that states that you should choke, use a shoe or beat the hell out of a child for misbehavior. I think too many of us take ‘spare the rod, spoil the child’ quote too far. And yes, the ideology of beatings DO come from slavery. Have many times have black parents told their kids ‘they would beat the black off of them’? Or whipped their kids with extension cords and other devices to make a child ‘submit’ or make them ‘obedient’ or instill fear? Sometimes instilling fear is not a good thing. It has the opposite effect as I pointed in my previous post about my friend’s brother. Every child is different. You can discipline a child but it has to be done within reason. It know its difficult raising a child nowadays and they are growing up faster at a younger age but beatings are not the solution in every situation.
Well I don’t know them households because my mother never said she was going to beat the black off of us. And I never said it was right or the bible said it was right to choke or beat the hell out of a child for misbehaving. There is a difference between discipline and abuse!!!!!
Hey musbdherbs, The worst “beating” I got from my Mom’s was so painful I called the police but as soon as the operator answered my thought was “it’s going to be worse when the cops leave so I hung up. I think back then the police had Caller-ID because the operator called back. I happened to answer the phone and the operator asked did anyone call for the police and I said no. To this day my mom doesn’t know that I called the police on her.