Brooklyn Center pastor sexually assaulted a woman under the guise of exorcism

In 2017, Meally Morris Freeman, the pastor of Grace Mountaineer Tabernacle Church in Brooklyn Center, told a woman in his congregation that she had a demon in her body, and that she needed a one-on-one “deliverance” session so he could exorcise it.

The woman in question told police about what happened later, and her name has been left out of the criminal complaint describing what happened during that session, which took place before Bible study. A warning: It is explicit.

The complaint says Freeman began the deliverance session by giving the allegedly possessed woman cups of oil to drink, and after she’d swallowed them down, they began to pray. She then “fell out,” as she put it -- became listless and semi-conscious. She couldn’t remember exactly what had happened. But when she woke up, she noticed her stomach was slick with oil. So was the skin near her breasts. And her underwear was wet.

She says Freeman told her he had indeed “anointed” those areas, but that he hadn’t looked at all of them. In any case, he told her she’d need a second session later that evening -- after Bible study was over. He told her to send her daughter home with a babysitter.

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