Last week Dallas megachurch pastor, Bishop TD Jakes, formally denied sixual assault claims made against him by two former youth pastors [click here if you missed that].
Now another former youth pastor has come forward with claims of misconduct by Bishop Jakes...
From The Christian Post
A man who claims he worked as a youth pastor for T.D. Jakes in the 1990s has accused the megachurch leader of trying to kiss him. The accusation was lodged a week after Jakes formally denied separate allegations he sixually assaulted former pastor Duane Youngblood when he was a teenager and his older brother, Pastor Richard Edwin Youngblood.
The new claim from 57-year-old Timothy Anderson of Manatee County, Florida, is part of a legal response filed on Feb. 21 by Duane Youngblood’s attorney, Tyrone A. Blackburn, in support of a motion seeking to dismiss a defamation lawsuit filed by Jakes, the founder of the 80,000-member Potter's House in Dallas, Texas, against his accusers.
Dustin Pusch, a lawyer for Jakes, has already dismissed Anderson’s claim, telling the Dallas Morning News that Anderson is an unreliable ally of the Youngbloods who are trying to destroy Jakes' reputation.
“Mr. Jakes filed a lawsuit against disgraced former minister and convicted child predator Duane Youngblood and other conspirators in response to Mr. Youngblood’s calculated disinformation campaign aimed at destroying Mr. Jakes’s reputation, extracting millions from Mr. Jakes, and launching a new career for himself,” Pusch said in an emailed statement to the Dallas Morning News on Tuesday.
“In a desperate attempt to avoid accountability for his knowingly false accusations and to distract from his reprehensible conduct, Mr. Youngblood has enlisted felons, family members, and other completely unreliable allies to lob yet more false accusations at Mr. Jakes.”Read more details from the case here
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