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8/1/2007
6:51:33 pm EDT
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Exorcism Leaves Teenager Seriously Injured
Author: WNDU Source: WNDU
Title: EXORCISM LEAVES TEENAGER SERIOUSLY INJURED
An Indiana student minister faces criminal charges after investigators said he committed an exorcism on an autistic teenager.
Monroe County police said a religious ritual turned criminal inside a Bloomington home. Moreover, they said they had never seen anything like it before.
According to police, Eddie Uyesugi, 22, 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.
However, police said the exorcism turned violent. Under the guise of “God’s work”, Uyesugi battered and beat the boy.
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| "spiritual Warfare" At It's Logical Extent | Aug 3rd. at 5:12:19 am EDT
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foreverknightfan (Dardanelle, Arkansas) - Email Me
Perhaps I could shed some light into WHY these folks are doing the " exorcisms" of such things as autism.
I've been a watcher of one Christian in particular, Bob Larson, for years. And OC I've read what I could of Christian writings on Paganism and so forth. From what I can gather there is a movement within evangelical Christianity called " deliverance" ministry that basically says all your ils, emotional problems and so forth have demonic causes. And, as this case shows, that assumption can lead to disatrous consequences.
Bear in mind these folks think this is " spiritual warfare" and that they wrestle with demonic spirits all around them. There are authors in this movement that do claim that demons can enter one's life though anything, including a doll, candles and the mroe usual claims. Rather than understand that autism is a natural condition, these folks prefer to think itis a demon and the "cure" is, OC, exorcism. They are blind to the obvious. In fact I found a blog entry by a woman who attended a Larson exorcism seminar and she thought theheavy bruising of a female was by demons, not spousal abuse, and she even recalled a child in a wheelchair and the parents wanting to cure him through exorcism.
These folks are too fanatical to be rational.
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| Misdemeanor? Other Recent Exorcism Related Death? | Aug 2nd. at 11:29:58 pm EDT
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karrie9 (Kenosha, Wisconsin) - Email Me - Web
[Web LINK] -- Says that there are only **misdemeanor** charges rather than felony? True? I noticed that numerous articles covering this case fail to mention just how many hours long and injurious the beating was. His face was like twice his normal size? Why would they fail to mention such things?
[Web LINK] [Web LINK] -- July 29, 2007, Phoenix, AZ, a grandfather was subdued by police with stun gun (and later died, autopsy results pending) because he was choking his three-year-old granddaughter during a home exorcism. The girl and her mom were hospitalized.
Three heavy duty topics, besides the problem of seeing autism as wrong/damage/demonic (something I covered in my last comment) .
1. Exorcisms. I don't know much about them but I do see that people are getting hurt and/or killed during them. Some of the injuries/deaths happen in home exorcisms and some, like Terry Cottrell's, happen in in-church exorcisms. [Web LINK] Exorcism has been on the rise? Demon Stompers? [Web LINK] Mentions ***College Hill Church***, which has a miracles page on its website, claiming to heal blindness and other conditions.
2. [Web LINK] -- Killed, because they were autistic. Long list. Sentences tend to be light. Many more are restrained and drugged against their will, for instance... [Web LINK] Excellent blog. Covers many topics.
3. Comments after numerous abuse cases suggest that sentences tend to be lighter if the victim (of various types of abuse, not just exorcisms-gone-wrong) was mentally ill or developmentally disabled?
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| So, So Sad | Aug 2nd. at 10:33:50 pm EDT
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Celtic Lullaby (Jefferson, Maryland) - Email Me
I am the mother of two autistic children, so I'm aware that they often are more aware and knowledgeable than they have the ability to express. It's as if information is trapped inside them. That poor child probably knew what was going on, but not entirely why, and he didn't know what to do to make it stop. This is especially horrible because one thing that autistic children lack is an environmental filter. Not only was he experiencing the abuse, but every sound, smell, temperature change and piece of conversation in the background along with it. Complete sensory overload, in a really traumatic way.
I want to cry for what happened to that boy. The idiot who performed the so-called ritual deserves to be viciously mauled himself. Perhaps then he'd be exorcised of his demons of stupidity.
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| A Few Years Ago In Milwaukee, Wisconsin... | Aug 2nd. at 9:33:41 pm EDT
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karrie9 (Kenosha, Wisconsin) - Email Me - Web
Terry Cottrell, 8, was basically pressed to death via adults sitting on his chest -- also during an exorcism -- the kid was Autistic and that to them "demonic possession." [Web LINK]
It's not just ignorance of non-medical people that is worrisome -- Autism (and Asperger Syndrome) is diagnosed using the **disease** model.
Difference is looked at as disease/wrong/suspect, stuck up, and yes, even demonic. All sorts of things. Looking at others through the "damage" or even demonic lens does have the potential to get quite ugly, from social cruelty/marginalization to more serious dehumanization to even murder, as these cases show.
I'm on the autism range, as is my only grandson, who **understands** but cannot speak out loud (he just started signing yesterday...he'll be five in Nov.) .
I have a number of autism links on my blog (toward bottom of the right hand column) , if anyone is interested, or you can find them on your own, but they're **not all equal**...or even in the best interests of people on the autism range.
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| Didn't Want To Say It, But... | Aug 2nd. at 8:28:46 pm EDT
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Kiki Circen (Escondido, California) - Email Me
I told you so. That was addressed to all those who think christianity to be a decent religion of love and forgiveness. Even from an early age, I saw through its sugar-coating and hatred of the land of the living. I'm not afraid to speak out against it elsewhere. Yes, I get lots of hate e-mail filled with hurtful words, but I shake it off and don't bother with those people.
Really. Exorcising autism? Somebody must've lost their brains at a laundromat. I don't even believe demons exsist. Focusing on evil things just makes them stronger, so unless some guy turns into a big, scary flesheater, I ask the people who believe in the devil and demons if the pigs that flew by belong to them, and where their unicorns ran away to.
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| I Should Think The Demons . . . | Aug 2nd. at 12:31:10 pm EDT
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Titania (Smallville, New York) - Email Me
. . . would enjoy a good beating. Never could understand the concept that doing something bad to something that is bad would make it go away. For that matter, I don't believe in demonic possession. It's just as silly as the once held belief that the Sun revolved around the Earth. It's the cop-out answer given when no other can be given. Science has shown that autism is not demonic possession, and, as of yet, can't be cured. One poster here already commented about screening and supervision before a pastor in training can be let loose among the flock. I posted something similar to the comments section of the article.
BTW, I have experienced "the devil made me do it" mentality first hand by my ex-husband. After three months and three days of abuse, he said the devil wants to break us up. I thought, no, the devil would want us to stay together; such an evil entity (if I believed in it) would surely enjoy a marriage where one is so terribly mean and the other so victimized. Hence my reasoning for why the demons would like a good beating.
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| Two Tragedies Have Been Commited Here. | Aug 2nd. at 9:04:03 am EDT
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AutumnWind (Bushnell, Florida) - Email Me
First, the beating of the 14 yr. old boy by a minister. Second, the dumping of the minister by what is supposed to be a loving and forgiving church of faith. I think the christian cloaks of disguise are wearing thiner and thiner.
AutumnWind
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| 1 Hour | Aug 2nd. at 9:00:21 am EDT
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Shunketsu (Great Falls, Indiana) - Email Me
Wow that is only an hour from me. Thats realy sad that things like that happen. This country is just getting worse and worse.
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| Middle Ages Revival? | Aug 2nd. at 6:02:39 am EDT
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lightdancer (Wuppertal, Germany) - Email Me
I don't find words for what has happened. It's just making me so angry. Don't people learn from history? Do they ever think of what christian churches have done to people? I will never understand thiskind of narrow-mindness in my whole life.
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| OBOY.... | Aug 2nd. at 4:35:53 am EDT
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Whitewolf (Schenectady, New York) - Email Me
what is this, second case in a week of a child getting the S*** beaten of him/her and calling it an "exorcism"? HAVE THE FUNDIES GONE NUTTER? At least in the first case, the Perp is dead. As for this one, both the "pastor" AND the mother would be sitting their a**es in JAIL if it were me! Damn, the xtians must be REALLY bored if all they have to do is beat up on some innocent children... it's gone way beyond too much. 'Bout time the Feds stepped in and cracked down on this bulls***. The next victim might NOT be so lucky......
Love to all
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| This Is Why .orgs Like Autism Speaks Exist. | Aug 2nd. at 2:53:54 am EDT
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Rev. Amy Blackthorn, HPS, DD, Ph.D (Newark, Delaware) - Email Me
If we can help discover what causes autism, we can stop these people from preying on families.
Find More info -- HERE
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| I Am Not One For Violence... | Aug 2nd. at 12:54:27 am EDT
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Gypsy (Zanesville, Ohio) - Email Me
I have an autistic cousin...and if anyone ever tried to do to her what was done to this child...There would be quite a few of my extended family in close quarters at the local penitentiary...who knows, maybe they would let us all be cell mates..
This child deserves much better than what he received...And the mother should have been the one to call both the church and the law in this case...
Of course as serious as this child's injuries are, could one call it attempted murder in the name of religion???I find it difficult to believe that any minister, even one in training would do this kind of damage without some intent to do injury to this child...
Did he truly believe that he was helping the child, or did he think that it would have been considered accidental if he killed this child,thinking the child would have been better off...
Either way, this man needs off the streets and away from any place where he could harm children...Perhaps although not a sex crime, there needs to be a database (like there is with sex crime offenders) that covers folks who willfully injure helpless children...Something like that could prevent this man from preforming another "exorcism" on another innocent child...
Of course I still think that they should cut off the parts that hurt the child, but that just falls under cruel and unusual punishment by our court system...never mind that it would be most fair to the victim: much more fair than him getting out of jail any time before his 90th birthday...
Of course he could always preform exorcisms on those who are in jail for being sexual predators of children...but then that would also be disallowed by the courts...that whole cruel and unusual punishment thing...
Ok...I think I am done venting for the moment...
But I still think the fact that this man could actually WALK into a police station to turn himself in is a moderate miscarriage of justice...he should have been in traction by now...
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| Pagan Exorcist | Aug 2nd. at 12:35:11 am EDT
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Shadow Dragon (nashville, Tennessee) - Email Me
Demonic possession is real. exorcism is practice by every culture. I know a pagan who did a real successful exorcism on a possessed person. I think he got possessed by playing with the ouija.
I’m going to study exorcism. And I may become a pagan exorcist. And I think more pagans should be exorcist. For some people (like gays, non xians, other religions) pagans are the only people they can go to.
Question : Who here has done a exorcism? Describe it here. Lets start a forum here on pagan exorcist.
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| Oh My | Aug 2nd. at 12:11:53 am EDT
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Michael Wolfheart (Rapid City, South Dakota) - Email Me
gods...another one? this is the second in what? a week? Are idiots starting to go "ok Im bored, lets beat the crap out of someone and call it an exorcism!" to complete their day?
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| To Me | Aug 1st. at 11:45:08 pm EDT
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Azuris-Raen (Austin, Texas) - Email Me - Web
it looks like all the minister wanted to do was to wail on a defenceless 14 yo autistic kid. And then pass it off as an attempted "exorcism".
Personally I think he watched The Exorcist way too many times. What goes around, comes around.
Brighest Blessings and May the Light Protect Thee! ^_^
Dax-raen
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