A family feud ensues at Christian TV network Daystar after fired heir claims a family member assaulted his young daughter

A family-owned Christian business is embroiled in a highly public and bitter scandal surrounding sexual abuse allegations against one of its employees, The Post has learned.

Former Daystar TV host Jonathan Lamb and his wife, Suzy, say they reported a family member who was working with them for allegedly sexually assaulting their then 5-year-old daughter in 2021. as reported by the Houston Chronicle.

The company – one of the the world’s largest Christian TV networks, which has about 100 channels and is run by Jonathan’s mother, CEO Joni Lamb, says they investigated the claims internally and found no evidence of wrongdoing.

They also point out that the allegation, first reported by independent journalist Julie Roys, only became public days after Joni fired Jonathan from the Bedford-based network earlier in November.

Joni also accused Jonathan in a public statement of engaging in a “failed power struggle” to gain control of the company after being “extremely disappointed” at being chosen as successor by her husband Marcus before he died in 2021.

Jonathan and Suzy, his former co-host of the show “The Green Room,” first reported abuse allegations against their daughter to police in Colleyville, Texas, in 2020.

According to the department, the case was closed that same year but reopened in February when “additional details of the same incident were reported to the department.”

A spokesperson for the Colleyville Police Department told The Post that the department could not release any further information because it is an open investigation. No charges have been filed against anyone at this time.

Jonathan and Suzy claim that after their initial complaint was made, another alleged incident involving their daughter occurred, but when they told Joni and Marcus, they stopped them from reporting it to the police.

“I trusted (Joni) at the time … but it was a cover to protect Daystar and (other family members),” Suzy claimed in an interview with The Post.

Joni strongly denies any allegations of cover-up or discouraging her son and daughter-in-law from going to the police, saying they are “completely untrue.”

Suzy stopped working for Daystar in 2023.

That same year, Jonathan says, he refused to sign a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) from the company, which is worth about $1 billion, employs about 300 people and has about $100 million in annual revenue, he told The Post.

According to Jonathan, he was demoted from vice president to manager, given a personal improvement plan and went from being an on-screen personality to running the company cafe.

“They put me in this position as a form of punishment for not agreeing to their demands to sign the NDA,” Lamb told the Dallas Morning News.

Daystar pointed out that a non-disclosure agreement is an industry standard document that all employees must sign. NDAs do not stop or interfere with individuals who report a crime to authorities.

Jonathan was subsequently fired in November for failing to meet the terms of his improvement plan, which included “insubordination” and “inability to demonstrate leadership,” among other reasons cited in a statement Daystar sent to The Post.

In her statement, Joni added: “As a mother and grandmother, this situation saddens me deeply, and it breaks my heart because I love my family. I love all my children and grandchildren.

“I love the work we have been doing together for so many years. I had hoped we could have resolved this situation privately, but now he has given me no choice but to speak out.”

Both Jonathan and Suzy have made numerous accusations against Daystar on their social media channels since last week.

“The reason we’re going public is because we’ve been waiting a very long time for (Joni) to do the right thing. It was minimized and pushed away,” Suzy told The Post.

She also said that she and her husband have a lot of evidence to support their claims.

Daystar has said that even after the alleged incidents occurred, both Jonathan and Suzy continued to have relationships with the person they accused of abusing their daughter.

The couple said Julie Roys they had been on holiday in 2022 where the person in question was present, but said they felt pressured by Joni to do so.