Student minister charged in attempted 'exorcism' (on Autistic Boy)

[IChing]

Source: NBC channel 13

Student minister charged in attempted 'exorcism'
July 31, 2007 02:39 PM


Monroe County - A student minister faces serious charges after investigators say he committed a crime in the name of Christianity. Police say the minister battered an autistic teenager while trying to perform an exorcism. It happened at the boy's Bloomington home.
Monroe County police say a religious ritual turned criminal inside a Bloomington home.
"I've never seen anything like this before," said Detective Brad Swain, Monroe County Sheriff's Department.

Police say 22-year-old Eddie Uyesugi, a pastor in training at Cherry Hill Christian Church, promised healing for a 14-year-old autistic boy. Uyesugi convinced the boy's mother he could cure autism with an exorcism.
"Through prayer, casting demons out," said Det. Swain. "She was initially in agreement in doing this thinking it was something authorized through the church."

But police say the exorcism turned violent, and that Uyesugi, under the guise of "God's work," battered and beat the boy.
"Sticking fingers into the boy's mouth while he was restrained on the bed, causing him to vomit. And this happened several times," said Swain. "The family said that Mr. Uyesugi told them this was to cast the demons out."

Police say Uyesugi also punched the autistic teen in the face, a ritualistic beating that lasted for eleven hours.

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[ulysses]

1. .

The parents let this freak beat their autistic kid for eleven hours?

[Trillo]

2. "The boy's mother tried unsuccessfully to end the exorcism."

I'd be willing to bet that nearly any mother that really had tried would have beat the demon out of that bible thumper.

[ulysses]

3. well, I guess that anyone who is going to let some two-bit charletan "exorcist"

near her autistic child doesn't have the brains to try *too* damned hard.

[David__77]

6. Why didn't she call the police?

Surely they wouldn't have taken 11 hours to respond? Sounds like after-the-fact remorse that it didn't actually "work." Such nonsense. So terrible that someone would be subjected to such insanity.

[Hoondraskneltinsky]

10. That's why I find it hard to believe that...

the beating actually occurred for an 11 hour duration. It sounds to me that the entire itself took 11 hours and the implication that the beating occurred for the entire duration was sensationalism on the part of the author.

I know some parents with autistic children. They lose confidence after years of dealing with "experts" and become very desperate to find ways to help their autistic child. The fact is that this guy used their faith against them and the child. The parents are only guilty of being so desperate that they allowed themselves to be duped into thinking that it could work. I have no doubt that the mother did try to stop it once it turned violent (which probably wasn't the duration of 11 hours).

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[Caretha]

5. Someone should attempt to

exorsize the Christian out of that moron. I say we start by piercing his ears and tying them behind his head with baling twine.

[brentspeak]

7. What does his being Christian have to do with what happened?

????

[Tempest]

8. His being Christian has everything to do with it

It is a religious ritual.

Just as it would have everything to do with it if he were of another religion that practices exorcism.

[salin]

9. My hometown...

:cry:

What a horrendous story. Ignorance breeding abuse in a very sick way.