Ex-Scientology story #273, Child abuse in the cult exposed.

Sheila Huber saw first hand how Scientology treats children and as always, it is a grim story.  Her statement is part of an expose done on the cult by ABC Australia, it was aired on May, 18, 2010.

Lateline interviewed Scarlett Hanna, the daughter of Australian Scientology president Vicki Dunstan and former public affairs director Mark Hanna, supported by Sheila Huber, a former executive establishment officer in Los Angeles.

Scarlett Hanna’s parents are members of the elite circle known as Sea Org. She grew up in a now-disbanded group called Cadet Org, who she said were separated from their parents and lived in overcrowded conditions without adequate food or medical care.

“The best way I can describe [the treatment of children] is as cattle,” Scarlett Hanna said.

At 13 Scarlett Hanna was sent to live with adult members of Sea Org in inner Sydney, living a largely unsupervised life from 9am to midnight, and dodging classes at what she described as one of the city’s roughest schools.

“I was being bullied and bashed and so I just stopped attending school,” she said.

“I started hanging out in parks because I was so socially isolated and this led me to being raped by a convicted murderer and running away.”

Huber told Lateline that she had worked for Sea Org as a nanny for Cadet Org children.

She had no training and had sole care of 30 children under 3 packed into a one-bedroom apartment.   “I couldn’t believe it,” she said. “It was wall-to-wall cribs.”

To read the entire story go here: http://religiouschildabuse.blogspot.com/2010/12/daughter-of-scientology-leaders-in.html

Here is a film clip of Sheila and others talking about the abuse of children in Scientology. This is painful to watch.  Welcome to the wonderful world that L. Ron Hubbard wants for the rest of us.

Here is an excellent new video of Sheila Huber talking about Scientology.  VERY GOOD. !!!  (December, 2011)

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Ex-Scientologist story #272, Forced Abortions in Scientology.

The number of Scientologists in New Zealand is very small, less than a couple of hundred.  But when it comes to ruining lives and making scandals size really does not matter.  The following is an excerpt from the “Christchurch Press,” dated February 2, 2009.

If that was a fork in the road, Genny Long went the other way. She was 16 and living in Christchurch. It was the 1970s and her boyfriend’s family ran the Church of Scientology franchise here — within the clerical language that Hubbard is said to have adopted largely for tax purposes, the office in Christchurch is known as a “mission”.
So she dabbled in Scientology, beginning with a communications course. She says now that she had trouble talking to her parents — typical teenager — and this helped. It was basic general knowledge — listening and not interrupting, keeping your cool in an argument. But in her naïveté, Long thought these were techniques that Hubbard had invented.
It was quickly beneficial. She began to feel superior to her parents and others. “We were encouraged to feel that we had information and knowledge that they didn’t have,” she says. “We were encouraged to put ourselves above them. That makes you feel good. That’s the hook.”
She went into auditing next, following the procedures set out in Hubbard’s founding volume, Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health. It was only recently, doing a psychology paper at university, that she realised these ideas weren’t wholly original either.
“It’s a trap for young players, not having that information and that knowledge.”
Her boyfriend became her first husband. They went to Sydney and worked in the Scientology centre there. She trained as an auditor and kept searching her own mind and past for the causes of things that ailed her. Once you exhaust your immediate memory, you move into experiences at birth, in the womb, past lives.
Like the way she tried to cure her asthma. As she spiraled through past lives, she concluded that she had been a soldier in a war, gassed by an enemy. So the asthma is a psychosomatic reaction to that old trauma – problem solved.
“You feel so elated and floating,” she says. “You write a success story and say: my asthma is cured, I’ve found my initial engram. But that night, you start wheezing.”
And there is another side to a cure that doesn’t take. The church says that if auditing doesn’t work, you must have “undisclosed crimes” — negative feelings about Hubbard and Scientology. And you will need to do sessions on those.
It’s all so Orwellian. Accusations of thought crimes. Show trials of those who are’t performing. As an auditor, she was encouraged to get her statistics up — increasing chargeable hours, essentially — and if she didn’t she must be “actively suppressing” statistics. Those found to have thought crimes wore grey armbands and were kept away from others as untouchables.
This part started to worry her. She had been on staff for nearly five years, and was tired and pregnant, when it clicked: was she really happy or was everyone else happy? So she and her husband resolved to get out. And that’s when the harassing phone calls and visits started.
Such a long way from the high hopes she had when she first went in. “I wanted to see a better world,” she says. “I honestly thought that Scientology would produce a better world. I thought I could help the world.”
She sealed those years away as a time she would rather forget, but recently it’s come back. There was the paper on cults she did at Canterbury University and there was her discovery of the worldwide anti-Scientology movement, Anonymous.

Here she is appearing with Aaron Saxton, an anti-Scientologist activist.

Ex-Scientologist Story #271, Fred and Valerie Stansfield.

Fred and Valerie Stansfield were ardent Scientologists.  That is until they came up against the innate meanness that distinguishes Scientology from weaker cults. Here is what John Atack had to say in his book, “A Piece of Blue Sky.”  From chapter VII.

For many years, Valerie Stansfield ran her own auditing practice. She had been in Scientology for twenty years, and as a Class 9 Auditor was very highly trained. In March 1983, she was telephoned by a Finance Policeman and given half an hour to come to his office. She politely refused, and after a harangue agreed to an appointment that evening. When she and her husband Manfred arrived, she was told that her nutritional counselling was “squirrel.” Then the Finance Policeman read a list of accusations, and demanded that she hand over the counselling folders of all her clients immediately. Valerie reluctantly agreed to give the Finance Police the folders, but urged that they wait for a more opportune time to pick them up, as there were clients at her house. ²

Then International Finance Police Ethics Officer Don Larson walked in and started berating Valerie. He screamed abuse at her, and ordered his underlings to remove Manfred Stansfield, who refused to leave. Larson accused them both of “squirreling,” and told Manfred he was Suppressive. Manfred returned the insult, to which Larson replied “You’re a fucking SP [Suppressive]. Get out.”

Shocked by this aggressive treatment, the Stanfields wrote to their friends. The letter was one of the first public statements about the tactics of the new management; it was recopied and distributed to an increasingly bewildered Scientology field. Outlandish fines were imposed on some of the new members of I HELP. One Field Auditor was fined for introducing two of his Preclears who subsequently did business together. This was somehow construed as a breach of ethics. ³

Valerie gets back at the cult with a sharp and shrewd critique of the cult:

As for Fred he had his brushes with some OSA volunteers known back then ans “minute men.”

 

Three alleged Minutemen incidents involved Fred Stanfield, a disaffected church member who was one of Hubbard’s earliest followers in the mid ’50s- Stansfield claims he received a death threat from a Scientologist “friend” on March 24, 1984 (a threat reported to the FBI). On October 20, 1985, incident allegedly involved a physical attack on Stansfield by four long time church members who also pelted his house with eggs, while a November 11 attack saw Stansfield verbally harassed by several people who identified themselves as Minutemen.