Pastor John-Paul Miller’s ex-wife filed emergency court papers late last month alleging he had multiple minor victims.
The paperwork, filed May 28, included graphic and disturbing new allegations against Miller, who came under a cloud of scorn following the suicide of his second wife, Mica Miller, last month. Some say he pushed her to death.
Miller, 30, was found dead in Lumbee River State Park in North Carolina on April 27 from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
The new filing comes from family court in Horry County, South Carolina, 40 miles away, where Mica began divorce proceedings less than two weeks before she died and presented her husband with the necessary documents a few days later. .
Miller’s lawyers have denied allegations that he abused his second wife and “groomed” her after meeting her at his church when she was 15. In the new filing, first wife Alison Williams made similar accusations, fighting to gain custody of her two teenage children. children, born in 2008 and 2009.
The filing, filed May 28, included graphic and disturbing new allegations against North Carolina pastor John-Paul Miller, who came under a cloud of scorn following the suicide of his second wife, Mica Miller (right). last month. Some believe he led her to her death.
Miller’s first wife, Alison (pictured), filed for divorce against the pastor in 2015 after discovering he was having an affair with Mica, who was also caring for their four children.
News13 was the one who found the records, which also describe John-Paul’s infidelities.
That includes an affair with Mica that began while she was working as a nanny for Miller and Alison’s children, after meeting at their church in The Market Common.
The filing also alleges that Miller regularly hired prostitutes and was “sexually inappropriate with several underage female members” of Solid Rock, where Williams worked in 2015 as Miller’s assistant.
Mica joined the church a few years earlier, when she was 15, and married Miller’s best friend and fellow church staffer, Jeremy Deas, three years later.
That marriage ended in divorce when Mica was 21, two years before she married Miller in 2017. Williams and Miller divorced in 2016.
At the time, Mica remained on friendly terms with Alison and her stepchildren, according to court documents, which seek to grant Williams immediate temporary sole custody of their two minor children while contact between them and Miller is suspended, as well as permanent custody eventually. .
That is until Miller completes a psychological and parenting fitness exam, as the Palmetto State’s troubled religious leader remains under scrutiny.
The documents further maintain that Miller tightly controlled his Market Common church for years, purging its membership rolls to the point where he had complete control of its daily activities.
In one excerpt, Williams, who is seeking to modify a joint custody agreement based on “possible imminent danger that could be caused to the (children), writes: “In 2015, (Miller) was the pastor of Solid Rock Ministries and I served as his assistant in pastoral tasks.
Miller, 30, was found dead in Lumbee River State Park in North Carolina on April 27 from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, less than two weeks after filing for divorce.
The filing, from Miller’s first wife, Alison Williams, further alleges that Miller regularly hired prostitutes and was “sexually inappropriate with several underage female members” of Solid Rock (seen here), where Williams worked in 2015 as Miller’s assistant. .
‘We separated after I found out that (Miller) was having an adulterous affair with our former nanny, Mica Miller.
‘(Miller) told me that in addition to his affair with Mica, he employed prostitutes and had been sexually inappropriate with several underage female members of our church.
‘He blamed his immoral sexual behaviors on sexual abuse he experienced for years at the hands of his father, Wayne Miller.
“The church requested that (Miller) enroll in an extensive sexual addiction program, however, even though he promised me he would, to my knowledge that never happened,” he continues, before describing how “the romance between (Miller) and Mica tore our personal and church family apart.’
“(The affair) caused an imaginable amount of pain and discord in the lives of so many innocent people who truly trusted and believed in (my husband),” writes Alison, who was married to Miller for 16 years.
‘At that time, the church learned of (Miller’s) affair with Mica, the church was operating under the belief that the old bylaws of our church had been amended (those drawn up by Miller), and there we were operating under new bylaws. .
‘When the council voted for (Miller) to temporarily resign from the position of senior pastor so that he could seek treatment… and focus on his restoration, rather than following the instructions of our church leaders, (Miller) held a meeting and informed the council the new statutes were invalid.
‘Therefore, under the old statutes, he had 100 percent authority to make decisions.
“That was the first time members of our church had the opportunity to see (Miller) as he really was and became gravely concerned about his integrity and the financial structure of the church,” the document continues.
“As a result, almost our entire congregation left the church and (Miller) began his search to recruit new members.”
The move also allowed his criticized ex to ‘operate Solid Rock Ministries solely under his direction,’ Williams writes.
Williams’ complaint goes on to claim that Miller’s “mental health and deviant sexual addictions” only worsened after his marriage ended.
Around that time, she learned the identities of the “minor female members of the church” with whom Miller had allegedly “been inappropriate,” she said, recalling how he approached each of them and urged them to go to the police.
However, they allegedly refused for fear of retaliation from the pastor, so she had to contact the police herself to file a report.
However, instead of an investigation, Williams’ intervention garnered a lukewarm response from Myrtle Beach police.
According to Williams, he was told that no one would believe his story because ‘(Miller) was a well-known pastor and (because) we were in the middle of a divorce.’
His ex would marry Mica months later.
Williams’ complaint goes on to claim that Miller’s “mental health and deviant sexual addictions” only worsened after his marriage ended, due to his alleged affairs with minor church members while also seeing Mica (seen with Miller here). .
Things then calmed down over the next three years, Alison says in the document, before describing an abrupt change in the pastor’s behavior in 2021.
At the time, “arguments between (Miller) and Mica occurred in front of (her and (Miller’s) children), after which “(Miller’s) mental health increasingly deteriorated.”
“At times, he has waived designated visitation periods,” Williams writes, “based on his own claims that he is not mentally well enough for the children to be in his care.”
She also claims that Miller has used the joint custody designation as a mechanism to harass, threaten and control her, and writes that, as a result, the parties have been unable to communicate effectively and co-parent.
Williams goes on to allege that “it would be detrimental to the safety, well-being and emotional health of both her and the minor children to continue to share joint custody” and that “based on information and beliefs, (Miller) has continued to engage in deviant sexual conduct.” .
“(He) has exposed the parties’ minor children to an immoral and unsafe environment,” he writes at another point, before mentioning the recent the death of miller,
She firmly believes that, given the “circumstances” and “tragic events” surrounding the case, “placing the children in (Miller’s) care would place them in imminent danger,” and writes how the 30-year-old woman approached she. to ‘(share) intimate details about (Miller’s) behaviors and concerns about the safety of minor children.’
He maintains that up until the time of Mica’s death, ‘her successor provided a ‘safety net’ for the children during their visitation periods, but ‘based on her recent tragic death, that is no longer possible.’
Mica’s body was found at 4:23 pm EST on April 27 in North Carolina’s Lumber River State Park, in a swampy area approximately more than 100 feet from where bullet casings and her belongings were discovered.
Mica died less than two weeks after filing for divorce from her husband, and less than 48 hours after her husband received divorce papers.
After a medical examiner’s evaluation of the scene, Miller’s death was officially ruled a suicide, a decision also made thanks to the disclosure of a 9-1-1 call he made before allegedly shooting himself in the head with a gun he bought hours before. .
Miller has been cleared of any wrongdoing, but given the strange way her husband broke the news of her death to his congregation, instructing them to “leave the church quietly and not speak about the announcement here in the building,” suspicions of foul play have prevailed.
Mica’s family has argued that his body was “placed” in the part of the park where it was found by police, suggesting that his suicide was “staged.”
A hearing is scheduled for June 6 on Williams’ custody filing, where a judge will rule whether a psychiatric examination of Miller is necessary.