A Toronto bishop has been charged with sexually assaulting a woman he provided "spiritual guidance" to while performing exorcisms on her.

According to the Toronto Sun, Wayne Marlon Jones, 53, is charged with abusing the woman over a two-year period beginning is 2011. Authorities have declined to identify the woman allegedly involved.

Jones also faces three-counts of theft of over $5,000 charges after being accused of manipulating the woman into giving him money and other unspecified property. Exorcisms are not considered illegal in Toronto.

People Magazine reports investigators now fear there could be even more victims and indicate their investigation is ongoing.

Anyone who knows more about Jones is being asked to contact the Toronto Police Department of Crime Stoppers.

"We are encouraging anyone who has additional information to come forward to police," said Toronto Police spokesman Meaghan Gray.

Police describe the Trinidad and Tobago born Jones as a bishop at the Scarborough-based United Spiritual Baptist Church. According to the church's website, he founded the church more than 15 years ago.

On one of its home pages, Jones is described as "a man who believes in gratitude ... and has a vast number of spiritual children and considers himself blessed to have been given stewardship of them by the Almighty God."

Jones was ordained as a minister in 1987 and became a bishop three years later.

"Weird things go on over there," 60-year-old neighbor Sue Lamonday told the magazine of the church that sits at Midland Ave. near Eglinton Ave. E. "It didn't make sense people would be there at 2 a.m. until 4, 5, 6 a.m. I walked by last summer and heard [a man] screaming, 'God is going to save you from the fires of Hell if you hand over your help any way you can.' "

Jones is due in court later this month on Feb. 11.

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