Runaway British Mum, Constance Marten, Charged With Manslaughter, Was 'Groomed By Nigerian Sect Leader, TB Joshua'

March 5, 2023
@Sahara Reporters New York


The Christian sect, Synagogue, Church of All Nations (SCOAN), was led by televangelist Temitope Balogun Joshua, more popularly known as TB Joshua.

An aristocrat, Constance Marten who ran away for manslaughter was allegedly 'groomed' by the leader of a Nigerian sect as a teenager, according to reports.

The Christian sect, Synagogue, Church of All Nations (SCOAN), was led by televangelist Temitope Balogun Joshua, more popularly known as TB Joshua.

TB Joshua died a week before his 58th birthday in June 2021.

Marten, 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, according to Daily Mail.

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 Daily Mail report also said.

Marten and Gordon currently remain in 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.

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).

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.

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."

The church has been involved in a number of controversies, with fellow other Nigerian pastors calling Joshua, who died in 2021 at the age of 57, an "imposter."

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.’"

Marten and Gordon, 48, have been charged with manslaughter by way of gross neglect, concealing the birth of a child and perverting the course of justice after 'Victoria' was found in a shed in Brighton on Wednesday.

A hearing before magistrates in Crawley on Friday was told the girl was found wrapped in a plastic bag and buried under a pile of nappies in an allotment.

It was a tragic conclusion to a 53-day nationwide search for the couple, who went missing in January, sparking concern for their welfare and that of the child.

The aristocrat was seen smiling and blowing a kiss at Gordon in front of a packed courtroom hearing, during which they spoke only to confirm their names, dates of birth and that they were of no fixed abode.

Jeremy King, prosecuting, told Court 1 in Crawley Magistrates': "It was on Jan 5 this year a placenta was discovered in an abandoned motor vehicle with Miss Marten's passport next to it. Miss Marten had been in a relationship with Mr Gordon since 2015."

He said a missing person campaign was launched.

Mr King said the couple had been travelling around the country by using taxis and staying in hotels. In Whitechapel, they were spotted buying camping equipment and were last seen in Newhaven on CCTV close to the ferry.

Mr King said: "Initially they refused to answer any questions by the police. An extensive search was carried out in an overgrown allotment plot.

"Inside a locked shed, wrapped in plastic bag under nappies the baby was found inside. Life was pronounced extinct."

The magistrates in Crawley were told the court case was going to be transferred to the Central Criminal Court in London.

Lewes Power KQ, defending for Marten, said that while there would be no application for bail on behalf of Marten today but he was "putting the court on notice" there would be one at a future date.

Marten and Gordon were arrested by police in the Hollingbury area of Brighton on Monday night, after they were spotted earlier in the day by a member of the public.

It brought to an end a nationwide police hunt that began when they fled seven weeks ago with their baby - but when they were found by police the child was nowhere to be seen.

However, the couple were without their newborn when officers swooped in to arrest them.

Detectives from Sussex and the Metropolitan Police launched a huge search of public allotments close to where they were arrested.

Search teams with sniffer dogs, drones, helicopters and officers using heat-seeking equipment struggled to find the body.

Marten and Gordon are set to appear before the Old Bailey on March 31.

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An aristocrat, Constance Marten who ran away for manslaughter was allegedly 'groomed' by the leader of a Nigerian sect as a teenager, according to reports.

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I don't understand the correlation between tb Joshua and what she did

That’s really crazy

Hmm. A CULT , LITTLE SURPRISE

"was groomed"
Here they go again, put the blame on a nigga.
Why did her parents send her to Synagogue if not to deliver her from a mental condition? Even in Nigeria, only chronic cases are sent to live in Synagogue. She was already a psycho before she came to Nigeria, infact TB Joshua must have tried his best to deliver her and delay her obviously insane murderous manifestations. Now it's so convenient for the British press to blame Nigeria for their insanity.

This is a fascinating story for sure because it suggests that the dead Pastor Jaguda was a sexual predator who imprisoned teenagers for sexual slavery.

Oh well, the muffug is dead as a doornail now and busy washing Satan's stinky ass with his tongue in hell.

Bloggers and uk tabloids are all the same.. twist headline and story anyhow for clicks..na Joshua send am to kill her pikin? Which one is grooming ..

Joshua fit get im own but i don't think he should be mentioned in this matter

I can't believe I read the whole story!! TB Joshua continue to rest biko no mind bloggers

MurderX:
"was groomed"
Here they go again, put the blame on a nigga.
Why did her parents send her to Synagogue if not to deliver her from a mental condition? Even in Nigeria, only chronic cases are sent to live in Synagogue. She was already a psycho before she came to Nigeria, infact TB Joshua must have tried his best to deliver her and delay her obviously insane murderous manifestations. Now it's so convenient for the British press to blame Nigeria for their insanity.

Abi ooo

"While there [/b]it is thought[b] 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 Daily Mail report also said."


Look at these retarded trolls.

You tarnish a ministry's image with statements based on fabrication? (Not even assumption? )

Daily mail ma jona ni last last.

I'm not even a church member or a follower, but this piece of written trash goes beyond a travesty. It rankles my sensitivity.

That's one of the problems attached with fame.

Any good or bad story and/or headline is quickly attached to your name, so far it relates to you one way or the other.

Same way, Sophie Momodu cannot be mentioned without attaching Davido's babymama, Sophie Alakija: Wizkid's ex, Bola Ahmed Tinubu: Buhari's packager etc.

Those who seek fame must be prepared to deal with the negative limelight that comes with it.

MurderX:
"was groomed"
Here they go again, put the blame on a nigga.
Why did her parents send her to Synagogue if not to deliver her from a mental condition? Even in Nigeria, only chronic cases are sent to live in Synagogue. She was already a psycho before she came to Nigeria, infact TB Joshua must have tried his best to deliver her and delay her obviously insane murderous manifestations. Now it's so convenient for the British press to blame Nigeria for their insanity.

Don't mind them..from all the gibberish they wrote, shows that the girl is a nutcase.

So you are judging her deeds of today but the teachings of a dead tb Joshua.
Do you think about these things before putting it out sha

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chigoziri2403:
I don't understand the correlation between tb Joshua and what she did

Don't mind the British Bast..ds, how is Tb joshua involved in the killing of their child, secondly she made claims that she was subjected to inhumane attrocities while at the synagogue premises in lagos Nigeria, that sound like bull shit to me because a British citizen wouldn't hesitate to cry out to the British embassy for help if they are in distress situation in a foreign country.

The man don die now una dey come outside dey come talk rubbish about am, because a dead man cannot defend himself.

Lmao Lagos capital of Nigeria take this garbage write up down

..nothing wey TB Joshua no go see for land of the dead

White people don't want any good thing coming out of Africa