MEMPHIS (TN)
WREG
Memphis, TN -- The woman accusing a Memphis Minister of trying to hypnotize her into performing sex acts is speaking out to News Channel 3. She agreed to talk with us as long as we hide her identity.
Jane, as we'll call her, says she sought counseling from Minister Charles Howard of Broadmoor Baptist Church. She says she met up with him at a Germantown Waffle House to speak about her marriage problems. "I went to him because I was having problems, not to add them," she says.
Jane says Howard asked her to sit in his car after they ate dinner. She agreed, and once inside the car she says he tried to hypnotize her, telling her to be still and to listen to God. "When he would put his hand on my shoulder, even though it would be him talking, it would be God's voice I would be hearing, and I would obey all the commands given to me," she says. Jane says one of Minister Howard's commands was to touch him after he unzipped his pants. "I know that if he did that to me, as smooth and as practiced as he is, I'm not the only one."
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