How to instantiate a Scala object using reflection

I have some code that uses reflection to instantiate a Java or Scala class, allowing a user to specify the name: Assume that loadIt below is a hypothetical method defined using this approach.

def getInstance(name:String, jar:String) = {
   val c:Class[_] = loadIt(name, jar) // load class from the jar
   c.newInstance.asInstanceOf[AnyRef] // return new instance of the class
}

This works fine if name is a Scala class, but not if it is an object. Say I define an object:

object Foo

and call it as:

getInstance("Foo", "someJar.jar")

I get the error:

java.lang.InstantiationException: Foo
    at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Class.java:364)

If I do:

getInstance("Foo", "someJar.jar")

I the error:

java.lang.IllegalAccessException: \
Class xyz can not access a member of class Foo$ with modifiers "private"
    at sun.reflect.Reflection.ensureMemberAccess(Reflection.java:109)
    at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Class.java:373)

Is there any way I can properly instantiate the object?