NJ minister used oral sex to "suck the evil out of" male parishioners

This story comes to us from Linden, New Jersey where several Presbytarian congregation members complained to their church's oversight body, the Elizabeth Presbytery, that their minister had begun coercing them into sex acts as part of "exorcism rituals" which had grown increasingly unorthodox over time. I've made the thread here because criminal or civil charges haven't been filed against the minister yet.

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A Presbyterian minister, who said he was following the Bible, used Native American exorcism rituals, gemstones and even oral sex to extract "evil spirits" from men undergoing crises in their lives, the church and men claim. The so-called healing acts, which date to 1999, were allegedly performed by the Rev. Dr. William Weaver, a prominent Presbyterian minister who served as pastor at Linden Presbyterian Church for 39 years, one of two Presbyterian churches in Linden, a city with a population of over 40,000. He also held several public roles, including chaplain for a county police department. Weaver, 69, was scheduled to face his three accusers during an internal church trial, but on Jan. 25, 2019, one day before the trial was to begin, he renounced the jurisdiction of the Elizabeth Presbytery. He was accused by the church of “multiple acts of idolatry and sexual misconduct.” The church charges have no bearing on the secular government's civil and criminal courts. No public charges have been filed against Weaver. The men said they did report the sexual encounters to authorities, but the Union County Prosecutor's Office said they could not confirm nor deny information regarding this matter. With his renouncement, Weaver gave up his ordination and membership in the Presbyterian Church but also avoided a religious trial. He then moved to a gated retirement community in Lakewood. (snip) Every meeting with Weaver began the same way, Meeker said. The minister told him to undress completely and lie on the bed. Then he placed an angel coin — a coin with an angel or saint printed on it used for praying — on Meeker’s forehead and wrapped a magnetic strip around his head to keep it in place. Weaver then would place a series of stones on both of Meeker’s feet his hands and on the left side and right side of his chest. “I was told that for him to get everything out me, I needed to lay completely still to not move the stones on my feet,” Meeker said in the impact statement. “He would then take out the feather and scan my body from my neck to my stomach.” Weaver then opened Meeker’s mouth, placed his own mouth on top of Meeker’s mouth, and moved his tongue around “to see if I had anything in my mouth or throat,” Meeker wrote. Then the interaction became sexual, with Weaver engaging in oral sex, according to Meeker. He said he began to ask Weaver about the necessity of the ritual and asked the minister if he was using the same techniques on women. Weaver, according to Meeker’s statement, said “everything would come out of a woman’s navel and every 30 days their cycle would clear them out.” Weaver said the evil energy manifested itself into what he called “hits.” He also told Meeker that if the “hits” were left inside of him, they would cause infertility and erectile dysfunction. After every session, Meeker wrote, “he would then hold me and say he loved me and he would protect me, and he would never let anything bad happen to me.” Weaver also told him he could never mention what happened because “nobody would understand.”

The "hits" referenced were small bits of metal or plastic garbage that Weaver would produce from his mouth after the oral sex, claiming them to be impurities removed thereby from whomever the "ritual" was being performed on.

A lawyer (who does not represent any of the men who complained about Weaver) said that he believes there is enough to justify criminal charges if the men decided to go that route.

via International Skeptics Forum http://bit.ly/2XzfRIk