A controversial preacher of celebrities is confronted with even more allegations that he has sexually abused men while accusing one of his alleged victims of trying to list him.
TD Jakes, 67, the senior pastor of Dallas Megachurch The Potter's House, has filed a convenient procedure against Duane Youngblood, 58, for claiming a podcast last year that the Megachurch leader tried to hang him and involuntarily kiss him more than 40 years ago.
But now others, including the brother of Youngblood Richard, are coming forward with their own allegations they have sexually abused while Youngblood tries to dismiss the matter.
Among those who have submitted sworn statements to support Youngblood are Timothy Anderson, 57, from Florida.
He claims that he shared a room with Youngblood when they both attended a conference that Jakes organized in 1996.
Anderson said that Jakes had just asked him to move to Dallas to serve as a youth pastor, and he shared that request with Youngblood – which he knew always abundant organization, where he served as a youth gospel for about four years.
But during the conference, Youngblood warned him to be careful with the unwanted progress of Jakes, while shared what he reportedly experienced, according to the statement obtained by the Christian Post.
Yet Anderson said that the chance to work for Jakes felt like the chance of your life and he launched the opportunity, although he would make a third of the salary that he would nets as an evangelist.
TD Jakes, 67, the senior pastor of Dallas Megachurch The Potter's House, has been affected with even more accusations that he has sexually abused men
He explained that Jakes also promised that he could supplement his income by taking assignments outside his youth pastor tasks.
“I arrived in Dallas, wanted to collaborate with Bishop Jakes and enthusiastically about the future,” Anderson said in the sworn explanation.
“However, my first meeting with him in his new country house, when I was instructed to put together furniture, set the tone for a new kind of discomfort.
'Although I had hoped to discuss the ministry with him, to learn from him as a mentor, something unexpected happened. At one point he went into the bathroom and when he returned, he went on naked, “Anderson claimed.
“I was stunned. I turned around and tried to trivialize the situation in my mind. After all, this was Bishop Jakes – this chance was a dream come true, or at least, that's what I kept telling myself.
“I didn't want to make things difficult. I did not want to be considered homophobic or judgmental. I told myself that I could not have a single uncomfortable moment ruining this opportunity to learn from one of the greatest preachers of my generation. '
But more and more uncomfortable situations arose, until one day Jakes tried to kiss him, Anderson claimed.
He told how he got a chance in Japan, but Jakes would have told him that he could not go because it would disrupt his duties in the Potter's house.
He submitted a defamatory lawsuit against Duane Youngblood, 58, because he claimed on a podcast last year that the leader of the Megachurch was trying to combine him and involuntary kiss him more than 40 years ago
Duane (right) is now trying to have the case reject, while his brother Richard (left) wrote a statement that claimed that Jakes also attacked him sexually
Anderson said that when he reminded the bishop that he agreed to supplement him his income with other preaching assignments, Jakes made it clear that he had to choose between working as a youth pastor or became a evangelist again.
The choice was so overwhelming that Anderson said he was starting to cry.
'I knew from my experiences from the past – experiences that caused so much pain – that this was not just a decision about operation or a job. It was about power, control and manipulation, “he wrote in the statement.
'The more I thought about it, the more I broke emotionally.
'I walked up at his office and tried to understand everything and tried to breathe through the overwhelming sorrow. While I walked back and forth to process what happened, Bishop Jakes stood up, grabbed a box of tissues and walked over to me.
“His words were cold, calculated:” It sounds like you should make a decision. '
“And then, in a movement that paralyzed me with confusion, he grabbed me and tried to kiss me,” he claimed.
“My mind was racing.
Jakes, seen with Steve Harvey in 2009, claimed that the allegations of him that the brothers sexually abused the brothers were an attempt to squeeze him and more defamatory
“Emotionally distraught, I pushed him away and tried to get some control over my emotions back.”
But Anderson said he kept crying, hoping that Jakes would show him compassion – something he says he never came.
'The tissues were placed in front of me as a symbol of my brokenness and I told him how much I loved him, how difficult this decision was for me. I tried to hold on to the flard of dignity that I still had.
“But his reaction was horrifying. He reminded me that it was his ministry, his leadership and that if he gave me what I wanted – my chance to go to Japan – then I would not understand the principles of authority. '
Two weeks later Anderson said that he “made the difficult decision to return to evangelism.”
Richard had claimed that the pastor of Megachurch had hunted him when they shared a hotel room
Dustin Pusch, a lawyer who represents Jakes, denied the claims when he burned Anderson an 'unreliable ally' of the Youngbloods.
“In a desperate attempt to avoid responsibility for his conscious false accusations and to divert them from his reprehensible behavior, Mr Youngblood hired criminals, family members and other completely unreliable allies to lobe even more false accusations at De Heer Jakes,” he said in a declaration of Dallas's morning news.
Duane's brother, Richard, had also claimed that Jakes once sexually abused him when they shared a hotel room.
'[Jakes] Secure a room with two beds in it and we went to the room for the night. That night, while I was in my bed, I felt Elder Jakes climb into my bed, “Richard claimed.
“He pressed his body against mine and asked:” Youngblood, do you feel that? “He referred to his erection that he pressed against my back.
'I was out of bed in complete shock like him [got] From the other side and met me. He grabbed me by my arms and pulled me towards him and started kissing me. At the moment I can't believe what happens to me. '
Both men now support Duane Youngblood against Jakes' claims that he called the predecessor when he expressed himself in a podcast interview in October with Larry Reid that Jakes attacked him when he was 18 or 19 years old.
He claimed that the attack came after he spoke with Jakes for about two hours in the house of an older female spiritual, then Jakes then tried to kiss him.
Jakes said the allegations have caused his wife of 43 years of pain
The next morning Youngblood claimed that Jakes called his house and, while he was 'in a bathtub', meant that he wanted a relationship.
“He says to me, without any hesitation:” There are three things I need to do. The first is, when I come to Pittsburgh, you become the only person I sleep with, “” Youngblood claimed to have reid.
'The second is, you can't sleep with anyone else because I don't want to give my wife anything. And third, I will take care of you for the rest of your life. '' '
'I was out of bed in complete shock like him [got] From the other side and met me. He grabbed me by my arms and pulled me towards him and started kissing me. At the moment I can't believe what happens to me. '
Jakes denied the first allegations that gave rise to his defamation claim and those of the brothers.
He burned their claims a 'campaign of lies' and said that the brothers were trying to squeeze $ 6 million from him, and insisted that he never cherished the desirable desires for these men.
“The pain it caused my wife of 43 years old and my five children I have always loved and fed, is just too much to wear,” the bishop claimed.
'Every person has a breaking point. I have reached mine. I have authorized this lawsuit because I can no longer remain silent. '
Jakes, seen with radio presenter Charlamagne Tha God, said in a sworn explanation that he “never tried to grab teenagers, grab or kiss”
The pastor had also claimed that Richard is just looking for revenge because he did not support his younger brother when he was prosecuted for sexual crimes – a statement that Richard denies.
“I never hesitate in my report of the incident in the Econolodge in Westover, he claims.
'The fact that I shared what happened with an old one immediately after the incident … Show that I did not manufacture this decades later for personal gain.
“If my intentions were deceptive, why would I trust others at that time.”
