When Ministers Go Bad
Had a great wedding. Great honeymoon. Kid’s on the way. Just one problem, the minister was a fake.
The town of Bancroft, and its surrounding communities, are reeling today after the bombshell dropped that a popular United Church minister ignored her credentials being revoked four years ago, and then went on to conduct dozens of marriages that were never legally registered.
Two local OPP officers reportedly fell victim to the dismissed minister, as well as a number of prominent town residents — with at least two of the married couples, including the cops, now expecting their first child without their marriages having been either sanctified by the church or officially recorded with the province’s registry office.
“Something has to be done,” said the mother of one of those grooms, married by the supposed Rev. Maggi Montgomery-Heersink in Peterborough in July 2005, and whose daughter-in-law is now expecting.
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