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ATLANTA (AP) - Televangelist Juanita Bynum has filed for divorce from her husband, who is accused of beating her.
Bynum's attorney, Karla Walker, tells The Atlanta Journal-Constitution that the divorce filing cites cruel treatment.
The divorce filing also says the marriage between Bynum and Thomas W. Weeks III has been "irretrievably broken."
It was officially filed yesterday in Ware County, where Bynum has a home.
Weeks, known to his followers as Bishop Weeks, is accused of beating, stomping, choking and threatening to kill Bynum during an August 21st argument outside an Atlanta hotel.
He has been indicted on felony and misdemeanor charges that could send him to prison for up to 27 years.
Walker says Bynum loved her husband but feels it's necessary to stop the domestic violence.
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