Tony Ortega is a journalist who was formerly the editor of The Village Voice. He's written about Scientology since 1995, and in May 2015 released a book about Scientology's harassment of Paulette Cooper titled 'The Unbreakable Miss Lovely.' He continues to monitor breaking developments in the Scientology world from an undisclosed location in an underground bunker he shares with four cats and one of them wrinkly Shar Pei dogs. Despite his super-secret security protections, you can still reach him pretty easily by sending him a message at tonyo94 AT gmail.com (Drop him a line if you'd like to get an e-mail whenever a new story is posted.) [Header image courtesy John Rickard]
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Hey, Dublin: Want to see some Scientology child abuse?

 We’re sure that the parents who recorded the video we have for you today are very proud of what it shows. Their son, whose name we couldn’t quite catch but that we’re glad isn’t clear anyway, gives a short “graduation” speech this past Friday at the Dublin Scientology Ideal Org and for them it is []

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Scientology will try to force Jane Doe in Miami child abuse case into ‘religious arbitration’

 On April 20, Scientology will attempt to convince a Miami judge that a woman who says she was sexually molested while working as a child in its churches has no right to sue in court, but should be required to take her complaints to an internal “religious arbitration” panel made up exclusively of Church of []

Scientology’s David Miscavige served again: This time in a sick case alleging child abuse

 Scientology leader David Miscavige has now been served in the third of three highly visible lawsuits filed against him earlier this year, court records in Miami show. []

What a secret Jehovah’s Witnesses manual says about child abuse

 Ex-JW activists Mark O’Donnell and Lloyd Evans team up for the second part of what Lloyd says will be a trilogy of lengthy videos examining an ‘Elder’s Manual’ that has been leaked from the Jehovah’s Witnesses []

Powerful testimonies about child abuse in Scientology keep coming to light

[Victoria Locke]

You may have seen Victoria Locke on YouTube or over at Facebook. She’s been coming forward with some really shocking allegations of abuse while she was in Scientology, and she posted another stunning narrative []

VIDEO: Watchtower appeals to Supreme Court to keep JW child abuse under wraps

We joined Lloyd Evans, Mark O’Donnell, and Javier Ortiz on the latest episode of Watchtower In Focus. Here’s Lloyd’s description of the subject we []

Jehovah’s Witnesses test new legal strategy to combat child abuse claims: Call it incest

 Watchtower has made the claim that most JW child abuse cases involve []

‘John Redwood’ on today’s Atlantic blockbuster about Jehovah’s Witnesses and child abuse

[Mark and Kimmy O’Donnell]

Mark O’Donnell, also known as ‘John Redwood’ to the ex-JW community, was featured in an amazing Atlantic piece that went live today, written by Douglas Quenqua. Mark’s journey leaving JWs and then his wife Kimmy eventually joining him forms the backdrop of a stunning article about how the Watchtower is sitting on []

Details from the judge’s ruling in Quebec affirming a class action against JW child abuse

[Judge Chantal Corriveau and the Quebec Superior Court]

Our readers know we love court documents. And so we went hunting for a recent court ruling that we’d read some news stories about. At the end of February, Quebec Superior Court Judge Chantal Corriveau authorized a class action lawsuit against three Jehovah’s Witness ruling bodies in a []

Lloyd Evans premieres new film about JW child abuse cover-up: ‘Reclaimed Voices’

 Lloyd Evans is premiering a new film today, Reclaimed Voices: Abuse Survivors Speak Out, and we were lucky enough to get a sneak peak at some of it. As usual, Lloyd’s production qualities are first rate, and the subject matter is stunning. []