The first night her stepfather slipped into her bedroom and molested her was in 1994, when she was 11, Giana Lee says.

"The next night, Giana shut her door and lined up all of her stuffed animals against it," court papers describing the alleged attacks say. "That way, in the morning, she could tell if someone had entered her room.

"When she woke up the next morning, her (stuffed) animals had been thrown about the room, but she could not figure out what happened. Subsequently, Giana would wake up and notice her shorts or underwear gone or rolled up in her blanket."

The abuse continued, escalating to rape, visits to sex stores with her stepfather to allow him to purchase items "that he would later use on her," court papers say, and even abuse in his workplace: Sacramento'siconic St. Paul Missionary Baptist Church in Oak Park, a 5,000-member church whose former head pastor has counseled numerous Sacramento mayors and dined at the Obama White House.

Lee's stepfather, John Bernard Black Sr., was a pastor at the church and is named in an explosive new lawsuit that also names as defendants her mother, Kelli Adriann Black, the church itself and Pastor Emeritus Ephraim Williams, who retired in July after nearly 50 years as one of the most prominent Black leaders in Sacramento.