An exorcism allegedly took place in July at Redberry Bible Camp, located north of Saskatoon. The RCMP and other agencies opened an investigation into the incident..An RCMP investigation into “two reports of an incident involving a staff member of the Redberry Bible Camp and a pre-teen boy [on] the evening of July 13, 2022” is ongoing..Witnesses told the RCMP the man gathered the teen campers, aged 12-14, in a cabin for the exorcism. .The exorcism left the teen camper bleeding and twitching on the floor..The man who performed the exorcism was removed from the camp and admits on his Facebook profile to a long history of pornography, drug addiction, domestic violence, and being fired from his previous camp counsellor job..Given the man’s past, the hiring practices of the camp and protecting children are under review..The camp is investigating the man, but gave no further details..“I will tell you that we are investigating the situation… I’m not prepared to discuss it at this point,” board chair Wayne Dick told the CBC. .“I can assure you [the worker] is not at the camp.”.The accused gave out business cards to the campers and ordered them to remain in contact for the rest of their lives, as only he could perform exorcisms to rid them of demons..Some campers went to camp staff and told their parents, some parents came and took their kids home from the six-day long camp..The CBC saw videos and Facebook posts before the man deleted his account.He described himself as a “monster” who started watching pornography around age nine and abused his girlfriend after a “drunken cocaine party.”.The girlfriend abuse was why he lost his previous camp counsellor job..“In my drunken rage, I sabotaged everything, I physically abused my girlfriend, screaming so loud it woke up the neighbourhood, my girlfriend ran out of the house, banging on the doors of anyone who would listen and next thing I knew my parents and the police showed up,” he wrote on his deleted Facebook account..The man fell back into a relationship with God in the spring of 2020..“God saved me from a life of debauchery. God saved me from a life of wickedness,” he said in a Facebook video in May..Ailsa Watkinson, a University of Regina professor emerita of social work who specializes in child protection, told the CBC the allegations were “just nuts.”.“If that was my child, I’d be horrified,” she said.
