Megachurch Pastor Creflo Dollar Arrested, Says He Was Just Disciplining Daughter
Televangelist and Georgia megachurch pastor Creflo Dollar was arrested early this morning after he apparently got into an altercation with his 15-year-old daughter. According to police, Dollar “slightly hurt” his daughter, choking her and leaving scratches on her neck.
Deputies arrested Dollar at his home after receiving a 911 call from Dollar’s 15-year-old daughter. She said her father attacked her after an argument about the girl attending a party.
A witness told authorities that Dollar grabbed the girl around her throat and choked her causing a scratch on her neck, according to Fayette County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Lt. Brent Rowan.
As he was leaving jail, Dollar stick to his claims that he was disciplining his daughter, telling reporters, “Discipline my kid. Love ‘em,” but had no words for his congregation.
Dollar, who is the pastor of the 30,000 member World Changes Church, is facing misdemeanor charges of simple battery and cruelty to children. He was released on $5000 bond.
Update
The police report has been released. According to Dollar’s daughter, he attacked her after she said she didn’t want to talk about why she was upset.
Check out her side of he story:
Here’s what Dollar told police:
Read the rest of the police report here.
Disciplining is one thing but choking some one out…… :/
I believe in discipline but I would not CHOKE a kid. IDK, feels like one of those things we may never know all the details about.
Please they should have put his azz in jail
Fake azz preacher they need to pick Eddie Long azz up also
Ummmm….he CHOKED his child. How is choking a form of discipline? A spanking, yes. And at 15, she’s a bit too old of a girl to be spanked by her father anyway. Rather creepy. CHOKING the breath from your daughter? No, sir.
I swear, you said everything I was about to comment. Agreed 100%
Girrrrrrl, 15 ain’t OLD to get a proper ass whopping. I swear my daughter disrespects me, it will be on like Donkey Kong! I am not the politically correct kind that will schedule a psychological counselling session to work through her problems. Imma WHOOP YOU! Then we will talk.
Choking is not allowed while discipline your child.
Why is a father putting his hands on his teen daughter? Despicable.
How would you handle the situation if you told your 15 yr old daughter that she could not go to a party at 1:00am and she hit you?
“How would you handle the situation if you told your 15 yr old daughter that she could not go to a party at 1:00am and she hit you?” Well, my first suggestion wouldn’t be “Choke the sh*t out of her”. Honestly, if your 15 year old daughter feel comfy hitting you, as a father, you failed in parenting years ago.
Honestly, if your 15 year old daughter feel comfy hitting you, as a father, you failed in parenting years ago.”
Exactly.
A lot of black people (Yes, Im black) really scare me when it comes to discipline. We think that choking and BEATING our kids is great. However, if you look at the stats on our children the beatings aren’t doing anything.
I maybe received one or two spankings my whole life and I’m in my twenties now. And I cant even remember them because they happened before I was 5.
I really wonder about the parenting skills of parents who feel the only way they can discipline their child is beatings. I think it says more about you than your child.
@Chrissy. I was reading this story over at The Grio and the comments were shocking.
“She’s glad it wasn’t me. She would have wished I had choked her ass!” Like, what’s worse than being a grown man and choking your teenage daughter? A hot poker? Cut off a few fingers? Like, damn. If your child is in their teens and STILL needs physical punishment, you need to take a long and hard look at your parenting skills. And if physical punishment cranks out model citizens, that’s news to me!
And I have nothing against spankings when they’re necesseary and accompanied by a discussion on why said behavior was unacceptable. I’ve been on the receiving end of a few when I was young. But after a certain age, it’s inappropriate and ineffective. But you can’t tell some people anything. It’s like child abuse doesn’t exist for some. It’s all “discipline”.
Since you asked, at the point at which my daughter felt she could hit me, I would walk ask her to leave my home. If she wouldn’t go peacefully, I would have her removed. I would not; however, choke her or pin her to the ground.
I agree with d-nicegirl. My paternal grandfather was very much in favor if the rod but he taught his sons that when their daughters get to be a certain age (particularly post puberty) it is highly inappropriate to physically discipline them. That’s what mothers and aunties are for.
Yeah, 15 is young. But think about it, you’re laying your hands on a child with the body of a woman. Yeah, that is creepy.