Md. bishop charged with sexual abuse, assault charge

MARYLAND
WUSA

[with video]

Debra Alfarone, WUSA

PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, Md. (WUSA9) — A 22-year-old Prince George’s County woman told prosecutors her boss, Pastor Michael C. Turner of The Miracle Center of Faith Missionary Baptist Church, made unwanted sexual advances to her and sexually abused her during February and March of this year.

In her complaint, she says she worked at the Capitol Heights church for about 4 weeks. During this timeframe, and for 3 of them, Turner sexually harassed her and touched her without her permission. She says, “He would just literally rub his hands all over my body and push his body up against my body.”

But, in the end, she says what happened in his private office one day is what made her speak to prosecutors and file a report, “He pushed me onto his couch and he had got on top of me.”

Note: This is an Abuse Tracker excerpt. Click the title to view the full text of the original article. If the original article is no longer available, see our News Archive.