Based upon an unsubstantiated accusation?
There’s plenty of corroboration within this article and the others on the topic.
In retrospect, I should be condemning the “pastor,” though, not the church.
Criminal charges next?
A third woman, now 45, said she was never a member of Allen’s church but met him in 1983 at a candle shop, where he kept an office and provided spiritual guidance. She said that when he stopped by her apartment one day, she invited him in because she believed he was there to help her become “saved.” She says he paddled her 16 times, sexually assaulted her with a club and then raped her.
Allen was arrested and indicted, but the case was dismissed in 1984 after he passed a polygraph and the woman refused to cooperate with prosecutors. The woman said she was afraid of Allen, who she said threatened to do the same thing to her daughter.
The woman, whose daughter is now grown, and her attorneys plan to set up a meeting soon with the district attorney’s office to discuss whether Allen can face criminal charges now.
With the exception of Kelly, who asked to be identified in hopes of empowering others, the Star-Telegram is not identifying the women because of the alleged sexual nature of the paddlings.