The suit also says that John-Paul Miller “openly admitted to engaging in sexual misconduct with minor female members of Solid Rock Ministries, an admission that was corroborated by multiple witnesses,” including Miller’s ex-wife, Alison Williams, who said Miller confessed as much to her.
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“Rather than ensuring the safety of minors within the congregation, JPM and church leadership worked to suppress the allegations and silence victims, enabling his continued leadership within the church,” said the suit.
Jane Doe’s Story
Regarding the specific sexual assaults against Jane Doe, the lawsuit says that Doe was with a friend when Doe encountered Miller in Myrtle Beach in 2023. “Despite being in a public setting, [Miller] leaned into Jane Doe #1 as if to hug her and shoved his hand down her pants touching her genitals without consent,” said the suit. “Plaintiff immediately recoiled and tried to brush it off and moved his hand because she didn’t think her friend noticed and she was scared.”
“About 30 minutes later, Jane Doe #1 and JPM had a heated argument about him using his title of ‘pastor’ and [using] scripture to justify sexual misconduct. In response,” the suit continued, Miller “cited scripture, telling Plaintiff: ‘No man is without sin and temptation. God understands that.’”
Doe “was left reeling from the encounter, experiencing a long-delayed spiral of self-doubt and depression.” Moreover, that experience “triggered repressed memories of Plaintiff of things which occurred at an earlier time,” said the suit. “Upon later reflection and trying to remember previous events, the plaintiff realized that JPM had assaulted her almost twenty years before.”
The suit goes on to state that Miller sexually assaulted Doe in 1998 when she was 15 years old. At the time, she did not realize what had happened to her or the harm it caused her, and she repressed her memory of the alleged assault.
“At the time of the events in question, JPM was known to his father (head pastor), church leadership and members,” the suit said, “as a troubled individual with a history of reckless behavior, including prior legal troubles, a child born out of wedlock, and a pattern of misconduct.”
The suit alleges that Reginald was guilty of sexual misconduct and knew that his son had been also, yet the father took no measures to put any safeguards around Miller to prevent him from harming others, specifically minors, at All Nations Church. Other church leaders who knew that the Millers were predators also allegedly failed to do anything.
“This church was JPM’s sexual playground,” said the suit.
Doe went to All Nations Church with her grandparents on Sunday, July 19, 1998. Both grandparents were attending Sunday school when Doe entered the main church sanctuary and saw Miller and another person. Miller spoke to Doe, and then she went to the bathroom.
