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Televangelist's Husband Admits Attacking Her

Posted Mar 12, 08 2:40 AM CDT in Arts & Living,  Crime & Courts 

(Newser) – The husband of Pentecostal televangelist Juanita Bynum pleaded guilty yesterday to assaulting her and was sentenced to three years probation. Thomas W. Weeks III, the founder of Global Destiny churches, admitted grabbing Bynum, throwing her down and kicking her in the parking lot of an Atlanta hotel in August, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports.  Weeks apologized to his wife in court.

“My emotions got the best of me,” he said. “I take responsibility.” Bynum had urged the court not to send Weeks to jail. “I don’t believe my husband is a criminal,” Bynum said. The couple married in 2002 in a televised ceremony and together wrote the book, “Teach Me How to Love You: The Beginnings.”

Sources Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Associated Press

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Juanita Bynum and Sheryl Underwood at each other's throats   (adobe0227 (YouTube))
The Rev. Thomas W. Weeks III, husband of televangelist Juanita Bynum, makes a statement during a news conference in Duluth, Ga. in this September file photo. Weeks pleaded guilty to assaulting his wife...   (Associated Press)
Thomas W. Weeks III, known to his followers as Bishop Weeks and husband of televangelist Juanita Bynum, is handcuffed as he leaves the courtroom at the Fulton County Jail complex in Atlanta in this August...   (Associated Press)
Thomas W. Weeks III, right, known to his followers as Bishop Weeks and husband of televangelist Juanita Bynum, talks with one of his attorneys, Ed Garland, in an Atlanta courtroom in this August file...   (Associated Press)
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