The Runaway British Marten Charged With Manslaughter Was Groomed By TB Joshua
Afimag.com –
An aristocrat, Constance Marten who ran away for manslaughter was groomed by the founder of Synagogue Church of All Nation (SCOAN), Late Evangelist Temitope Balogun Joshua, popularly known as TB Joshua.
Martin, 35, who has been charged with manslaughter of her baby ‘Victoria’ by way of gross neglect along with her lover Mark Gordon, spent six months in a compound near the country’s capital of Lagos as a teen.
While there, it is thought she was forced to stay in a dormitory of 50 girls who were watched over by armed guards, starved, woken for biblical readings and made to call their leader a daddy.
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Marten and Gordon currently are in the custody after a seven-week manhunt for them and their child came to an end last week, ahead of a hearing at the Old Bailey later this month about their involvement in Victoria’s death.
It was gathered that, Marten, who grew up on a £100million estate in Dorset and whose grandmother was goddaughter of the late Queen Mother, is believed to have travelled to Nigeria when she was in her teens.
In Lagos, she joined the Synagogue, Church of All Nations (SCOAN).
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Joe Hurst, a former British soldier who joined the group but left before Marten arrived in 2006, said she spoke to him years later to allege that she and other white people at the compound were humiliated by T.B Joshua.
Mr Hurst further alleged that Marten claimed she was forced to eat Joshua’s leftovers and had been placed in social exile – a punishment given to members who were not ‘focused enough’ on the pastor or who spoke about their lives before entering the compound.