After posting Kate’s story of
being sexually abused by TB Joshua’s pastor in Athens, “Sandra” got in
contact with her story. Sandra previously served at SCOAN Athens as the
right hand of the pastor.
Sandra’s Story
As an ex-member of SCOAN and of the
Athens Branch, I want to confirm that everything Kate has said is true. I
was Andreas right hand and worked extremely closely with him until I
discovered the shocking things that these girls were going through. 2 of
the abused girls came to me for help, despite the fact that it wasn’t
permitted to share your secrets with anybody but Andreas and his wife.
The girls were in a terrible state, contemplating suicide and completely
overpowered by the terrible actions of this man. I was devastated by
the way he justified his abuse to the girls.
Andreas told them that it was a blessing
to have sexual contact with him, using verses from Songs of Solomon to
justify himself, that he was doing these things to protect them from
having relationships with other boys and that as their mentor, he had a
right over their bodies. One thing which Kate forgot to mention is that
he once told her “I am going to find you a nice boy to marry in the
church, and then we can continue our relationship. You will keep the
balance in your marriage as I am keeping it in mine”.
When I confronted him about it, he
begged me for forgiveness and would then continue these dirty actions in
secret until he was exposed again. Eventually I found out about a third
and fourth girl who were being abused at the same time.
When we exposed these matters, Andreas
fled back to Nigeria. He said that TB Joshua would handle the situation.
When Kate went to Lagos with a letter signed by 8 of us, we expected TB
Joshua to condemn the actions of Andreas and help us. Instead we were
totally devastated. Tb Joshua gave an answer that was chilling. (It is
all written in Kate’s article). Following our hundreds of emails to him,
begging him for help, he called me one evening. He said the following
to me:
‘I don’t want to lose you. I know you. I
want you to stay by Andreas’ side now that he is coming back. As a wise
man, you know like Harry. And you will be by my side too when I come to
Greece’.
It was shocking that TB Joshua was ready
to send Andreas back as a ‘wise man’ after everything he had done. He
showed no consideration towards the pain we were going through. I was in
a terrible state with a huge weight on my shoulders, and TB Joshua
didn’t help me. We had to take matters into our own hands and go and
tell his wife. Our purpose was to console her, to be there for her but
she chose not to believe us. We were banned from attending meetings and
called liars and betrayers.
The fruit of this ministry is lies.
Andreas lived his life based on lies. He lied to his wife, he lied to
the congregation and he lied to his workers. He would humiliate workers
in meetings and expose them for being sexually impure, but then bring
girls back to his office and sexually abuse them.
My question is: How did Andreas manage
to do everything he did and have a clear conscience? It’s interesting to
note that the systematic way Andreas abused girls is exactly the same
way Bisola Johnson describes Tb Joshua abusing her. There does indeed
appear to be a culture of sexual abuse at the SCOAN.
0 comments:
Post a Comment