Former pastor claims sex abuse against televangelist
Source: Associated Press
Updated 9:41 am CDT, Saturday, August 25, 2018
Photo: Kimberly Barth, McClatchy-Tribune News Service
AKRON, Ohio (AP) — A lawsuit filed by a former associate pastor at an Ohio megachurch claims televangelist Ernest Angley sexually abused and harassed him over a 10-year period starting in 2004.
The allegations detailed in a complaint filed Wednesday in Akron by Brock Miller, of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, were previously reported by the Akron Beacon Journal in January.
Miller claims Angley, who recently turned 97, forced him in 2004 to get a vasectomy as a condition of his employment, inspected his genitals and repeatedly asked questions of a sexual nature at Angley's Grace Cathedral in Cuyahoga Falls. The lawsuit alleges Angley made Miller lie on a bed while the televangelist massaged him.
Angley didn't respond to requests for comment from WOIO-TV and the Beacon Journal.
Read more: https://www.chron.com/news/crime/article/Man-claims-sex-abuse-in-lawsuit-against-13182128.php
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Televangelist Ernest Angley ordered to pay $388,000 for using unpaid labor at Cuyahoga Falls buffet
Updated Mar 30, 2017; Posted Mar 29, 2017
By Eric Heisig, cleveland.com
CUYAHOGA FALLS, Ohio -- A federal judge on Wednesday ordered Cuyahoga Falls televangelist Ernest Angley and a buffet he owns in the Akron suburb to pay more than $388,000 in damages and back wages to a group of employees that the U.S. Department of Labor found worked as unpaid volunteers.
U.S. District Judge Benita Pearson wrote that testimony at a trial held in October and November showed that Angley and his managers at Cathedral Buffet encouraged members of his church, Grace Cathedral, to work at the buffet without pay. The for-profit restaurant used volunteers to save money and the volunteers felt pressured to provide free labor, meaning they should have been paid for their work, Benita Pearson wrote.
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Of the amount Pearson assessed against Angley and the buffet, half will go towards back wages of the employees, while the other half were assessed as damages, since the judge determined the defendants acted in "bad faith" by reverting back to using unpaid labor.
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"In his announcements, Reverend Angley would suggest that Church members had an obligation to provide their labor to the Buffet, in service to God, and that a failure to offer their labor to the Buffet -- or to refuse to respond to phone calls...seeking volunteers -- would be the same as failing God," Pearson wrote.
https://www.cleveland.com/court-justice/index.ssf/2017/03/televangelist_ernest_angley_or.html
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why people give hard earned money to grifters like this. It simply doesn't compute. This character particularly. He's a strange little man to say the least. 
