A CHURCH minister ordered women to strip naked and spanked them to “cast out evil spirits”, a court heard yesterday. Howard Curtis, 72, is accused of targeting vulnerable women who came to him for counselling over depression and domestic abuse.
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a jury was told that instead of helping them, he forced them to take
part in bizarre rituals for his own sexual gratification. Prosecutor Jane Osborne said: “He would conduct something known as deliverance ministry — said to be casting out evil spirits.