John-Paul Miller sexually assaulted 14-year-old, told her she would be ‘raped by demons': 2nd lawsuit

By Leonardo Blair, Senior Reporter Saturday, March 08, 2025

Editor’s notice: This text accommodates graphic depictions of alleged sexual assault. 

A second alleged sufferer who says she was sexually assaulted by Pastor John-Paul Miller of Stable Rock at Market Frequent in Myrtle Seaside, South Carolina, when she was simply 14 within the late Nineties, mentioned the embattled pastor and his father, Reginald Wayne Miller, informed her she could be “raped by demons” for studying Harry Potter books.

The 46-page lawsuit, which identifies the sufferer as Jane Doe #2, was filed on her behalf Wednesday in Horry County by attorneys S. Randall Hood of McGowan, Hood, Felder & Phillips, LLC, and Mark B. Tinsley of Gooding and Gooding, P.A.

She mentioned the abuse occurred between 1998 and 2001 whereas she was a scholar at Cathedral Corridor Academy in Myrtle Seaside, South Carolina — a non-public Christian Faculty based by Reginald Miller.

John-Paul Miller, his father, All Nations Cathedral Church (previously often known as Cathedral Baptist Church of the Grand Strand, Inc.), Stable Rock Ministries, Inc. and Cathedral Corridor Academy (beforehand often known as Grand Strand Academy) are all named as defendants within the lawsuit searching for unspecified damages.

The sufferer alleges the abuse and acts of predatory habits she suffered whereas attending Cathedral Corridor Academy have triggered her “extreme and lasting hurt.”

She is suing the defendants for negligence, gross negligence, and recklessness; civil conspiracy; assault and battery; outrage/intentional or reckless infliction of emotional misery; and violation of the South Carolina Unfair Commerce Practices Act.

The counts are practically similar to these listed in a lawsuit filed by one other lady final month who says John-Paul Miller sexually assaulted her when she was 15 and 23.

John-Paul Miller is accused of assaulting Jane Doe #2 for the primary time in 1999 when he was a instructor on the faculty at age 19 or 20.

“One morning in 1999, after chapel service, Plaintiff was requested to carry the door as college students left the church constructing. When the final scholar exited, she discovered herself alone with John-Paul Miller, who was seated on the piano, enjoying softly. JPM then requested Jane Doe #2 if she wished to play the piano. At fourteen, Jane Doe #2 was trusting and noticed no purpose to say no,” the lawsuit says.

“As Jane Doe #2 turned to go away, JPM pulled her right into a hug. She barely had time to react earlier than JPM’s palms moved down her again, previous her waist, and underneath her clothes and touching her naked butt.”

Jane Doe #2 mentioned she sought assist from one other instructor who despatched her to Reginald Miller’s workplace regardless of his personal historical past of sexual abuse allegations, in accordance with the grievance.

“When she arrived, JPM was already there. RWM demanded she repeat her accusation together with his son standing beside him. Jane Doe #2’s voice wavered, and she or he informed the reality. RWM didn’t ask for particulars. He didn’t care,” the sufferer’s attorneys wrote.

As punishment for her allegations, Jane Doe 2 says she was compelled to write down 5,000 strains declaring, “I can’t lie about John-Paul Miller.”

Following the incident, she claims she was regularly harassed and assaulted by different college students at occasions within the presence of John-Paul Miller.

“One scholar even held her down and sprayed bug spray into her mouth and eyes whereas others watched. By means of all of it, JPM was there, smirking, encouraging, watching. RWM was no totally different. In the future, he discovered her crying. He informed Jane Doe #2, ‘Cease disturbing the Lord’s work’ and ‘Repent to your lies.'”

John-Paul Miller can also be accused of touching Jane Doe #2 sexually when she was within the ninth grade, however in accordance with her legal professional, she didn’t begin processing the abuse she endured till the controversial suicide of John-Paul Miller’s second spouse, Mica Miller, in 2024.

“By ninth grade, Plaintiff had stopped hoping issues would change. Then, one afternoon, JPM cornered her alone in a classroom and informed her, ‘You failed the check.’ He mentioned she wanted additional assist, and if she stayed after class, he might repair it for her. She hesitated however obeyed. She sat down in a chair close to the piano. He began with small discuss and requested, ‘Did she like him?” and ‘Did she have a boyfriend?'” the grievance notes.

“His hand moved to her knee, and she or he froze, and he leaned in additional and mentioned he might defend her if she would let him. He then grabbed her and bodily assaulted her by placing his palms underneath her shirt and skirt and touching her sexually. She struggled to push him away, however he was stronger and pushed her down.  She lastly broke free and sprinted for the door. She ran down the corridor and out of the college away from JPM.”

Although her mom discovered her strolling down the street from the college, Jane Doe #2 didn’t inform her mom.

“The horrors of Cathedral Corridor Academy weren’t simply bodily and sexual, they have been psychological. When Plaintiff introduced a Harry Potter ebook to highschool, RWM and JPM dragged her into the workplace. They berated her, referred to as her a servant of Devil, and informed her that if she continued down this path, she could be raped by demons,” the attorneys state. “Then, proper in entrance of her, they set the ebook on hearth. RWM then beat her with a Bible and poured water over her head.”

Mica Miller died final April 27 at Lumber River State Park in Robeson County, North Carolina. Whereas some critics have speculated John-Paul Miller performed a task in his late spouse’s dying, which he has denied, he has not been charged in connection together with her dying even after an FBI search of his residence final November.