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Police: Pastor Creflo Dollar choked, hit daughter
By KATE BRUMBACK | Associated Press – 36 mins ago

ATLANTA (AP) — The 15-year-old daughter of megachurch pastor Creflo Dollar told authorities her father choked and punched her, and hit her with his shoe during an argument over whether she could go to a party, according to a police report.

Dollar's 19-year-old daughter corroborated most of her sister's story, but Dollar disputed it, telling a sheriff's deputy he was trying to restrain her when she became disrespectful. When she began to hit back, he wrestled her to the floor and spanked her, according to the police report.

Dollar is one of the most prominent African-American preachers based around Atlanta. His World Changers Church International has 30,000 members in the Atlanta area, and the ministry has satellite churches across the U.S.

Dollar faces misdemeanor charges of simple battery and cruelty to children. He has been released from jail and his lawyer said he was expected to preach Sunday.

Dollar said in a statement Friday he loved his children and would never hurt them.

Around 1 a.m. Friday, his 15-year-old daughter called 911. She told a Fayette County sheriff's deputy that she and her father argued when he said she couldn't go to a party Saturday night, according to the report.

She went into the kitchen with her older sister. When her father asked why she was crying, she told him, "I do not want to talk right now," the report said.

Her father charged at her, put his hands around her throat, began to punch her and started hitting her with his shoe, she told the deputy. The deputy noted a scratch on her neck.

Dollar told the deputy he wouldn't let his daughter go to the party because of poor grades.

The deputy also interviewed Dollar's 19-year-old daughter, who said her father grabbed the younger girl's shoulders and slapped her in the face and choked her for about five seconds. She said her sister tried to break free, but did not fight back. When her father threw the 15-year-old on the floor, the older girl ran to get her mother.

The deputy also spoke to Dollar's wife, Taffi, who said she did not see the fight.(continued)
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That's some sad stuff. That whole 'if you judge we who are holy you stand against god' crap is a mental illness that gets taught.

No Offense, but, Creflo is no different than Jerry Failwell, I used to watch him back in the day, but I was awestruck by his insincerity. It wasn't black and white, it was simply his inability to connect with people. I don't disparage his preaching, but I do question his motivations...

I am really torn on this one. Yeah, in theory, you don't want to choke your kid, reality is a bitch though. I don't have daughters. I have nieces that have put the family through hell just because they thought they were grown and ended up tied up into some shyt they could not handle. They end up putting other people in jeopardy. Because if you really love someone, there is nothing you won't do for them. Sometimes the things you have to do are very dangerous.

The real world is not always a pretty place. Sometimes, as a parent, you have to break your child off a piece. He went to a place that I have not been to myself, but I wanted to. If you can't follow the rules, you have to go. Creflo and Taffi's daughter needs to get her own place. She needs to grow the hell up.

You're getting a lot more details out of the story than I am. All I got was a 15 year old girl, disappointed at not being allowed to go to a party (15 year olds tend to be emotional about things existing in a narrow time-space) goes to a part of the house to be alone and cry; Dad, who already "won" the argument follows her in and decides to attack her physically because he thinks that she shouldn't FEEL that way.

My feeling is, fuck him and the pulpit he rode in on.

My sentiments are with Taffi. At some point, America is going to have to start dealing on a real level with all these damaged kids the celebrity professor, philosopher, preacher, politician and of course celebrity culture produces.

Don't throw them to the wolves. That's how we end up with phenomena like the Kardashians, Robertses, Jay Bakker, and Klanned Paul. It's fun to laugh at them out of Schadenfreude, but when you get to know some of them, the stories are heartbreaking, ask me how I know.

I'm like Taffi in the respect that I didn't see the fight.

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Taffi is doing what she must. Not mad at her. She will be the one that will bring the two parties together in the end. But, imo, no 15 yr. old can have the right to stand as an adult and still have the benefits of a child.

I never spanked my kids or any of my nieces, nephews, or grands. But like I told them, I reserve the right to get in that ass. Especially if you think you are a grownup like me.

There is no right to assault and battery or domestic violence, parent or not. Parents do not own children.

http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/ ... ghter?lite



Maybe more of these a-holes will think twice before smacking their kids around.

My question is, are the two daughters now being forced to live with their father while the legal system determines whether he's a saint or a devil? After being assaulted by one's father, what could be more scary than to be forced to continue living with him after you've turned him over to the police? Coercion and intimidation anyone? Stand by for everyone to recant their stories.

along with the fact that YESTERDAY he gets in his pulpit and basically calls his child a LIAR.....

remember folx, this is the same ni99er (and I don't use that as a term of ENDEARMENT!!!) that told former members of Bishop Eddie Long's church (he of the sleeveless suit jackets---you heard me, I didn't stutter) to go back to his church after his sexual liaisons came to light....

CREating the FLOw of DOLLARS indeed....



I need to find that book "Pimps in the Pulpit" because that's exactly how they dress....

I can already tell you, you are 100% spot on.

Yes, I have been in a similar situation, and no I'm not bothering with feigning objectivity.

http://www.ajc.com/news/fayette/creflo- ... 56075.html



Of this, we can be certain.

Also, I thought Taffi was the daughter. When I said my sentiments are with "Taffi" I meant to say they are with the daughters.



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