The South Carolina pastor, who shot himself after his wife Mika Miller slapped him with divorce papers, was accused of raping a 15-year-old girl nearly 30 years ago, using his church as a “sexual playground,” a new lawsuit alleges.
According to the complaint filed Tuesday in Holly County Circuit Court, in 1998, he allegedly attacked the only one in 1998, “Jane Doe” while at school on Sunday at her father's church.
Miller, 19, allegedly took the girl to her father's office before he forced her into his truck, which he sexually assaulted her, court documents alleged.
According to the lawsuit, the girl was a virgin at the time.
She claims that Miller, a controversial pastor at Solid Rock Church in Myrtle Beach, hit her again when she met him during a 2023 trip to the city.
The pastor leaned down, hugged her and hugged her before suddenly claiming, “I put my hands down on my pants that touched my genitals without agreeing.”
The accuser argued that Miller later tried to use the Bible Bible to justify the attack, saying, “No one has no sin and temptation. God understands that.”
The lawsuit, which also names churches and solid rock churches in all countries as defendants, accusing him and other leaders of covering up a pattern of alleged abuse over the years.
“This church was JPM's sexual playground,” the lawsuit alleged.
The suspect said he felt “immortal guilt” after learning about Miller's wife's death last year. And she believed that if she spoke to me earlier, she could block more harm.
“She has heard over the years that she has multiple other victims,” says her lawyer, Randall Hood. I told WBTV. “And it's her hope that by bringing light to the situation, it doesn't happen again.”
Miller has faced national scrutiny just days after serving on divorce papers since his 30-year-old wife was found dead in a gunshot wound injured in the head of Lumber River State Park in North Carolina on April 27, 2024.
Micah's death was committed suicide by a Robeson County medical inspector, but her family sued officers to investigate her end mise “deeply” amid allegations that the pastor had abused his wife.
She had contacted police several times leading the suicide to level off allegations against her husband, including that she “groomed” her as a teenager before getting married in 2017.
The pastor vehemently denied allegations of grooming and abuse on his part.
He previously stated that his wife suffered from mental illness and had made previous attempts to take her life and was hospitalized on multiple occasions.
Miller's lawyers declined to comment on the rape case when the local outlet reached it.
