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(NewsNation) — South Carolina pastor John-Paul Miller and the household of his precocious estranged wife, Mica Miller, settled their ineligible disputes Monday and agreed to prosecute successful her representation a instrumentality that would punish a signifier of maltreatment known arsenic coercive control.
Any ongoing lawsuits betwixt Mica Miller’s family, John-Paul Miller and his Solid Rock Ministries “have been addressed done a planetary colony whose presumption are confidential — including power of Mica’s estate,” NewsNation section affiliate WBTW reported.
Mica Miller, 30, was recovered dormant April 27 astatine Lumber State Park successful Lumberton, North Carolina — astir 70 miles northbound of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
Officials ruled her decease a suicide, but the woman’s household has called for a thorough investigation, noting that Mica Miller died while pursuing a divorce. John-Paul Miller denies immoderate engagement successful her decease and told NewsNation helium “saw it coming for years.” Investigators person verified his alibi, and John-Paul Miller faces nary charges successful transportation with Mica Miller’s death.
As a effect of the planetary settlement, John-Paul Miller won’t look immoderate civilian wrongful decease claims tied to Mica Miller’s death, according to WBTW.
With the ongoing civilian matters down them, Mica Miller’s household and John-Paul Miller person agreed to propulsion for a coercive power law, WBTW reported. They besides called disconnected each demonstrations extracurricular John-Paul Miller’s Market Common church.
Coercive power is simply a “systematic signifier of behaviour that establishes dominance implicit different idiosyncratic done intimidation, isolation, and terror-inducting unit oregon threats of violence,” according to a 2018 study. Victims of coercive power whitethorn find themselves isolated from friends, family, and different enactment systems, trapped successful a narration due to the fact that of fiscal oregon societal barriers, and fearful for their information and the information of the radical astir them.
A South Carolina lawmaker filed a measure 4 years agone that sought to criminalize coercive power and marque it punishable by arsenic galore arsenic 10 years successful situation and a $10,000 fine. Those efforts stalled, and the instrumentality isn’t connected the books, but Mica Miller’s household hopes to alteration that.
“We don’t privation to speech astir Mr. Miller anymore,” said Regina Ward, the lawyer representing Mica Miller’s family. “We privation to determination guardant to the adjacent chapter, and that is getting this (coercive control) instrumentality passed.”
Mica Miller accused her pastor husband in tribunal filings of stealing her car, installing a tracking device, hospitalizing her against her volition and “grooming” her erstwhile she was 10 years old.
In a tribunal affidavit she sent to her lawyer astir 9 days earlier she died, Mica Miller said she had “been abused successful each mode I tin deliberation of. Emotionally, sexually, spiritually, financially, and physically,” since “the time we became hubby and wife.”
John-Paul Miller previously told NewsNation helium tried to dependable the alarms astir his estranged wife’s intelligence wellness struggles. If helium could spell backmost and bash thing differently, helium said helium would support her astatine a further region from her family.
“I cognize what I’d do,” helium said. “I would not impact her household erstwhile she's having intelligence episodes. And is schizophrenic and disconnected her meds. I would ne'er person texted them.”
Mica Miller’s family and friends have said they were heeding a antithetic acceptable of warnings.
The woman’s household described John-Paul Miller arsenic feeling similar “he owned her,” laying retired successful tribunal documents alleged patterns of “abuse and violence” and saying she was afraid for her life.
“Mica stated to maine connected galore occasions, ‘If I extremity up with a slug successful my head, it was JP,’” Mica Miller’s sister, Sierra Francis, said successful an affidavit asking to beryllium named the peculiar head of Mica’s estate.
WBTW reporters Adam Benson and Adrianna Lawrence contributed to this report.
