Pastor Creflo Dollar denies punching, choking his daughter
Televangelist Creflo Dollar told a packed congregation at his Georgia church on Sunday that he did not choke or punch his daughter and that he should never have been arrested, WXIA-TV reports.
The 50-year-old pastor of the World Changers Church International in south Fulton county was arrested at his Atlanta-area home early Friday after his 15-year-old daughter told police her father choked and punched her and hit her with his shoe in a dispute over whether she could attend a party.
According to the police report, Dollar said he wrestled his daughter to the ground and spanked her after she hit him. The police report also noted a scratch on the daughter's neck, which she claimed her father gave her during the fight.
"The truth is that a family conversation with our youngest daughter got emotional, emotions got involved, and things escalated from there," he said. "The truth is, she was not choked, she was not punched."
"Raising children in our culture of disrespect is a challenge," Dollar added, WXIA reports. "Like all of us who are parents [know], there are times when discipline and training our kids can become pretty intense."
Dollar also denied there were scratches on his daughter's neck, saying a mark there was a prior skin abrasion from eczema and that anything else is "an exaggeration and sensationalism."
Dollar suggested that the intense media attention to his arrest was part of a plan to silence his message of grace and forgiveness, The Atlanta -Journal-Constitution reports.
"The devil knows that in order to discredit the message, you have to first of all discredit the messenger," Dollar told his congregation. I'm big Blac this is your BHR HollyWood Report
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