In 2004, co-founder Linda Shelton left the network after the couple accused each other of
cheating, and then that same year co-founder and then president Danny Shelton filed for a divorce. Shelton's attorneys and Fairfax prosecutors agreed to a plea deal in which he would serve
probation. However, a judge doubted Shelton's alleged remorse and rejected the plea deal. On January 24, 2012, Shelton reached a second plea deal shortly before his scheduled trial, in which he entered
Alford pleas on all four of the molestation charges brought against him. On February 24, 2012, Shelton was sentenced to six years in prison. On June 20, 2011, a lawsuit was filed against 3ABN on behalf of one of Shelton's accusers at the
United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois, claiming that the network was negligent in how it handled the allegations against Tommy Shelton. Since 2011, 3ABN has been a party in a land dispute in
the Bahamas, wherein a visually impaired man stated he had attempted to donate one to two acres for the construction of a church sanctuary, while 3ABN stated that he had in fact signed away full control of his of land through an irrevocable charitable trust agreement. The dispute is pending in the
Supreme Court of the Bahamas. On December 31, 2018, the network fired Brenda Walsh, host of the show
Kids Time. Later in February 2019, the network released a video on their
Facebook and
YouTube channels accusing her of mishandling money that was being raised for a children's network in
Collegedale, Tennessee. The network never gave the $2 million to her ministry that had been raised, even though they had promised to do so in a separation agreement. ==See also==