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Amerigo Vespucci

(30,885 posts)
Fri Jun 8, 2012, 10:40 PM Jun 2012

Televangelist Creflo Dollar arrested in alleged choking attack on daughter

Televangelist Creflo Dollar arrested in alleged choking attack on daughter



http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/06/08/12126777-televangelist-creflo-dollar-arrested-in-alleged-choking-attack-on-daughter?lite

FAYETTEVILLE, Ga. -- Creflo Dollar, founder and pastor of World Changers Church International, was arrested early Friday on charges involving the choking of his 15-year-old daughter.

Dollar was taken into custody at his Fayetteville home and charged with simple battery and cruelty to children, NBC station WXIA of Atlanta reported.

According to the report from the Fayette County Sheriff's Office, Dollar's daughter called police to say that her father attacked her after they argued about whether the daughter could attend a party.

The report says the daughter alleged that Dollar choked her, then threw her to the ground, punched her and hit her with his shoe. The responding officer noticed a scratch on the daughter's neck near her throat; the daughter said her father gave her the scratch during the fight.
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MADem

(135,425 posts)
8. Yep, there is! A con artist can get over for a bit longer--a televangelist can be seen coming a
Sat Jun 9, 2012, 01:35 PM
Jun 2012

country mile away!

Look how long Ken Lay and Bernie Madoff played their games before people got wise to 'em!

xfundy

(5,105 posts)
5. More troubling is that he's kept his tax-exempt status
Sat Jun 9, 2012, 01:42 AM
Jun 2012

As he' stolen millions from financially poor and educationally lacking individuals who were lured into his magical/religulous schemes.

It would be great if there was a stadium where he was confronted with all the people he's ripped off, who lost their homes and who knows what else because they trusted and/or sent this turd their money.

mfcorey1

(11,001 posts)
6. I am not a great fan of his but this could be more of a case of a parent trying to prevent
Sat Jun 9, 2012, 05:44 AM
Jun 2012

his daughter from rambling the mean streets of Atlanta, Georgia at 1:00 a.m. How it became physical between the two is still in question. The description of the physical violence is disturbing. However other reports seem to indicate there is more to this story than the surfaced report we have so far.

MADem

(135,425 posts)
9. She didn't get defiant all of a sudden! She's probably been giving her parents shit for awhile.
Sat Jun 9, 2012, 01:42 PM
Jun 2012

The preacher's kids are the worst, it seems. Every preacher's kid I have ever known was a serious hellraiser (and some of 'em even went into the family business themselves).

The father wasn't too smart in any event--he shoulda called 911 first and told the police he had an incorrigible child on his hands, and threatened the kid with reform or military school--after all, he can afford that kind of thing.

aikoaiko

(34,183 posts)
11. I wish Dave Chappelle were still doing his show -- he would skewer Dollar for this.
Sat Jun 9, 2012, 02:22 PM
Jun 2012


"Is Creflo Dollar gonna have to choke a ......" "Praise Jesus"
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