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In March 2023, Mail Online reported that an aristocrat, Constance Marten who ran away for manslaughter was allegedly ‘groomed’ by TB Joshua, the leader of a Nigerian sect as a teenager.
Marten, 35, who had 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 Lagos, Nigeria 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 the leader ‘daddy’, the report also said.
Marten and Gordon were arrested and detained after a seven-week manhunt for them and their child came to an end, ahead of a hearing at the Old Bailey later in March 2023 about their involvement in Victoria’s death.
Marten, who grew up on a £100million estate in Dorset and whose grandmother was goddaughter of the late Queen Mother, was believed to have travelled to Nigeria when she was in her teens.
In Lagos she joined the Synagogue, Church of All Nations (SCOAN).
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 say she and other white people at the compound were humiliated by the controversial pastor.
Speaking to The Independent, Mr Hurst said she claimed she had been 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.
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He added that when speaking about what happened in the compound, she asked: “How could God allow this to happen to us?”
Matthew McNaught, author of a book about the megachurch, said she had contacted him several years later as she was “trying to get her head around what happened to her”, adding: “she was confused and traumatised”.
In April 2021, YouTube suspended his channel, Emmanuel TV, after he claimed homosexuality was the result of possession by demonic spirits.
Marten’s ex-partner Francis Agolo, 44, was quoted by The Sun as saying the experience in Nigeria seemed to have been “traumatic’ for her, adding: ‘She (Marten) would clam up when talking about her time there.”
He added: “When I knew Constance, she was caring and loving. It seems very out of character.”
Marten had previously opened up about the experience in an interview with Cosmopolitan magazine, in which she revealed she was one of 50 girls who shared a dormitory in a religious cult.
She added: “The leader looked me in the eye and said, ‘Your family doesn’t matter anymore. I’m your father now.’”
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