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Earl Paulk
Archbishop Earl Paulk expected to turn himself in
(p.s. as of 10am today, he still had not turned himself in)

Archbishop Earl Paulk, one of Atlanta's preeminent religious figures through the 1980s and 1990s, was supposed to turn himself in to Cobb County today on a perjury charge, but had not as of this afternoon.

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation issued the warrant Monday. Paulk is charged with lying during a deposition in a sexual misconduct lawsuit. Paulk said Mona Brewer, the woman suing him, was the only sexual partner he had outside of his marriage.

The deposition in the case was taken in Cobb County, which is why the warrant was issued there.

John Bankhead, a GBI spokesman, said at 1:45 p.m. that Paulk was supposed to turn himself in at 10 a.m., but he had not shown up.

Nancy Bodiford, a spokeswoman for the Cobb County Sheriff's Office, said Paulk had an agreement to turn himself in within 48 hours after the warrant was issued about noon Monday.

Paulk could walk in at any time of day or night, she said. "When he and his attorney are coming in, I don't know," she said.

Paulk's criminal attorney did not return calls.

The perjury investigation began last summer after a DNA test showed Paulk fathered a son with his sister-in-law.

That son, the Rev. D.E. Paulk, now pastors the Cathedral at Chapel Hill in Decatur, the church in which Archbishop Paulk built his reputation.

Brandi Paulk, D.E.'s wife and a minister at the church, said the family had no comment about the arrest.

"We were caught off guard," by the warrant, she said.

"The news knew about it before our attorneys did. We are still in the process of sorting it out."

Archbishop Paulk built an interracial mega-church and a TV ministry in Decatur that attracted national attention and more than 10,000 members.

He also started an association of independent charismatic churches that had member churches across the nation.

His career has been plagued with rumors and charges of sexual indiscretions.

Mona and Bobby Brewer, former staff members at the church, sued Paulk in 2005. They dropped the suit last year for legal strategic reasons, and each filed their own suit against him and the church weeks later.
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This man is just nasty.
He had an affair with his bro's wife and sired a child with her.
The child thought Paulk was his uncle, but was later told-he was his father.
Ewwww gross.
Wherever Paulk goes, hotmessness has his back, like his favoritest homey.
Too bad he's 80.
I wish he could've been put under somebody's jail like 30 yrs ago.
He's too old to care now.



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Ga. Church Leader Accused of Perjury

ATLANTA — An 80-year-old leader of a suburban megachurch who is at the center of a sex scandal has been charged with lying under oath for saying he had sex outside marriage with only one other woman, court documents show.

A warrant for the arrest of Archbishop Earl Paulk, co-founder of Cathedral of the Holy Spirit at Chapel Hill Harvester Church, was issued Monday, according to court documents. Paulk was making arrangements Monday night to turn himself in, WAGA-TV reported.


Cathedral of the Holy Spirit at Chapel Hill Harvester Church is pictured Friday Nov. 9, 2007, in Decatur, Ga. The church's bishop and founder Earl Paulk has been charged with lying under oath, court documents show. (AP Photo/John Amis, FILE)

His attorneys did not immediately return calls from The Associated Press seeking comment.

Former church employee Mona Brewer is suing Paulk, his brother and the church on allegations that Paulk manipulated her into an affair from 1989 to 2003 by telling her it was her only path to salvation. In a 2006 deposition stemming from the lawsuit, the archbishop said under oath that the only woman he had ever had sex with outside of his marriage was Brewer.

But the results of a court-ordered paternity test revealed in October that Paulk is the biological father of his brother's son, D.E. Paulk, who is now head pastor at the church. As part of Brewer's lawsuit, eight women have given sworn depositions that they were coerced into sexual relationships with Earl Paulk.

A judge ordered the paternity test at the request of the Cobb County district attorney's office and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. District Attorney Pat Head declined to comment when reached at his home Monday night.

Paulk and his brother, Don, have been hit with lawsuits from former members alleging they were coerced into sexual affairs, but this is the first time criminal charges have been filed against the archbishop.

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Paulk's granddaughter alleges inappropriate touch

Penielle White made public the testimony she gave months ago in a court deposition
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A granddaughter of a preacher embroiled in lawsuits over sexual and financial wrongdoings went public this week with shocking testimony she gave months ago in a court deposition.
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Bishop Earl Paulk, shown here (above) in the Cathedral of the Holy Spirit in 1992, has faced a number of allegations of sexual misconduct.

It was the latest in years of allegations of sexual misconduct by Bishop Earl Paulk, who led one of Atlanta's biggest churches for decades.

Depositions, testimony given by witnesses preceding a trial, are typically not public record in DeKalb State Court, but Penielle White talked about hers to a Fox 5 WAGA-TV reporter this week.

White said her grandfather, Bishop Paulk, touched her and a friend Jessica Battle, in "inappropriate areas" years ago when the two girls were spending the night together at Paulk's house. White was about 8 at the time.

Paulk denied the allegations in a statement through his attorneys Friday.

He also denied them when Battle sued him in 1991 for molestation, which she claimed included fondling, oral sex and sex.

Paulk settled the suit out of court in 2003, to cut legal costs, he said.

White's deposition is part of other, long-running lawsuits by Mona and Bobby Brewer, former staff members at Paulk's church, which used to be called Chapel Hill Harvester in DeKalb County. It was a nationally known church with more than 10,000 members and a TV ministry.

Mona Brewer claims Paulk used his position to coerce her into a sexual relationship. Bobby Brewer, her husband, claims he lent the church money and was never repaid.

Paulk reacted through his attorneys to his granddaughter's statements. "Bishop Paulk denies the allegations made by Penielle. He is saddened and confused by the interviews of his daughter [Beth Bonner] and granddaughter," it says.

The statement went on to say that Paulk had seen the Bonner family over Thanksgiving and hopes for reconciliation.

Beth Bonner also gave a television interview, apologizing to the families who had been hurt by the events and saying she believes the claims of several women that Paulk had sex with them.

White and Bonner did not return phone calls.

The Rev. D.E. Paulk now heads the church, which is called the Cathedral at Chapel Hill. Attendance has fallen to fewer than 2,000.

He returned to take the reins of the church more than a year ago.

He grew up believing he was Bishop Paulk's nephew, but learned this summer through a court-ordered DNA test that he is actually his son.

D.E. Paulk's mother is married to Bishop Paulk's brother.

D.E. said he can say little because of the Brewers' suits and because the bishop is being criminally investigated in Cobb County, suspected of lying in a deposition.

In his deposition, Paulk said he has had sex only with his wife and Brewer.

D.E. Paulk said, "I am inheriting someone else's issues. That does not mean that I condone [anything bad that has happened]," he said.

"But we are saddened that this has gotten so ugly and so many people have been hurt by all of this."

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I mean...is ANYTHING sacred to this joker?
forgive me Lord. smh