Did Jan Crouch cover up her own granddaughter's rape? Woman, 24, claims she was attacked by network employee but says her TV evangelist grandmother hid it to avoid 'bad press'
- Carra Crouch says she was drugged and plied with alcohol then raped by a Trinity Broadcasting Network employee when she was a teenager in 2006
- Now 24, she claims she told her famous grandmother Jan about the attack but that she 'berated' her and hid it
- Carra said Jan did not want the bad press to affect her lucrative televangelist empire
- Jan died in June, 2016, at the age of 78 and Carra is now suing the network which she founded for personal injury
- She launched the lawsuit along with her siblings before their grandparents' deaths
The granddaughter of late TV evangelist Jan Crouch has accused her of covering up the fact she was raped by a network employee when she was a teenager.
Carra Crouch, now 24, says she was drugged and raped by a Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN) employee in Atlanta in 2006, when she was a teenager.
She said she was in the city with her famous grandmother and grandfather Paul as they took part in one of their Praise-a-thons when the attack happened. She claims that she told Jan about it afterwards but was silenced.
Carra, who along with her two siblings fought with their grandparents for years before their deaths, is now suing the company which owns TBN for personal injury.
She filed the lawsuit in 2012. On Wednesday, her lawyer raised the accusation that Jan knew about the assault and covered it up at a Californian court.
Jan Crouch (above in an undated photo taken during one of her TV preaching sessions) allegedly covered up the fact her granddaughter was raped in 2006. Jan died in 2016
'Jan Crouch, like her or not, her words mattered to Carra. Carra went in fragile and came out fragile,' attorney David Keesling said, according to Mercury News which attended the trial.
In her complaint, Carra said she was in a hotel room with the unnamed network employee when he gave her alcohol.
She claims he also gave her water which she fears was mixed with a drug to make her pass out.
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When she woke up, she said she suspected she'd been raped and told her grandmother. She said Jan 'berated' her and did nothing to hold the man accountable.
Carra's attorneys also claim that as an ordained minister, Jan had a duty to report the allegation to authorities.
Lawyers for Trinity Christian Center, the company she is suing, did not deny that the star was told of the assault but said she had no duty to report it because Carra went to her 'as a grandmother' and not as a minister.
Jan and her husband Paul made millions through their pioneering religious shows on the Trinity Broadcasting Network. Their granddaughter says she was attacked by someone who worked for the company but that neither did anything because they didn't want the bad press
Carra's sister Brittany (above with her grandparents and husband on her wedding day) accused their grandparents of skirting IRS laws before their deaths
'Jan Crouch is not here to defend herself. She loved her granddaughter; she would never intentionally hurt her granddaughter,' attorney Michael King said.
Jan (above in 2010) used the wealth she amassed through donations to fund a lavish lifestyle which included a $100,000 motor home for her dogs
Jan Crouch died on June 4, 2016, at the age of 78 after spatting with her grandchildren for years.
Carra's sister Brittany Koper said her grandparents misused donations given to them by hopeful viewers to buy mansion in three states, private jets and mobile homes for their dogs.
Jan and Paul Crouch's taste for extravagance was well-documented. According to Koper, they claimed meal expenses of up to $500,000 a year.
She justified the spending by claiming she was doing God's work. Paul Crouch died in 2013.
The couple pioneered the lucrative TV preaching business, amassing almost $1billion in assets for the company through decades of broadcasts.
Jan billed herself as the nation's TV mother.
She called herself Momma Jan and promised viewers success, wealth and happiness if they followed the word of God as told by her.
Among their promises was to spread the work of Jesus through India and save the Indian people from damnation. All they needed from American viewers was $8million for the mission, they said.
Carra, Brittany and Brandon are the children of Paul and Jan's eldest son, Paul Jr.
The TV couple used the millions they raised through the network to buy adjoining mansions in Florida (above)
The California-based network raised almost $1billion in assets. It denies Carra's accusations
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