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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Clearwater Police release reports from closed Scientology child sex abuse investigation

 The Clearwater Police department has released its investigative reports about the “Jane Doe” allegations of sexual abuse as a kindergartner at Clearwater Academy and later, as an employee of the church, and it provides a depressing look into how difficult it can be for a law enforcement agency to probe the Church of []

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SCIENTOLOGY CHIEF DAVID MISCAVIGE SCHEDULED FOR DEPOSITION IN CHILD SEX ABUSE LAWSUIT

 In the third of three big lawsuits filed last year by a powerful national legal team, a child sexual abuse case filed in Miami on behalf of a woman going by the name Jane Doe, a document appeared in an online docket today from Jane Doe’s attorneys saying they expect Scientology leader David Miscavige to []

BBC: Scottish children who escaped US cult speak out about years of abuse

 Who are the Bunker’s knowledgeable readers about David Berg’s icky flirty-fishing “Children of God” cult? []

Mirriam Francis: Picturing Scientology parents who abandon their children to abuse

 Leah Remini’s second season of Scientology and the Aftermath started off with a hammer blow to the church — a devastating episode about child molestation in Scientology that was condoned and covered []

The disciplinary report of lawyer who abused the trust of a Scientology victim

[Suspended Philadelphia attorney Brian Kent]

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: The Pennsylvania Bar has revealed it is suspending the license of attorney Brian Kent for 3 years, and published its report of what occurred between Kent and a woman who []

Dianetics at 75: Scientology’s bible, endorsing child molestation since 1950

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Dianetics, which turns 75 today, is a vile book. In it, L. Ron Hubbard imagines that most of our problems are the result of unfaithful women and uncaring mothers having rough sex. Scientology doesn’t []

Ten years ago today: ‘Going Clear’ exposed Scientology’s abuses for a new audience

[Alex Gibney and Lawrence Wright at Sundance]

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Ten years ago today, Alex Gibney’s HBO documentary ‘Going Clear’ premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, exposing Scientology’s abuses in a way that had never been done before. []

Scientology school answers abuse lawsuit by blaming 13-year-old victim

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: In October we posted the lawsuit against Delphi Academy, a Scientology school in Lake View Terrace over a notorious case of abuse. We were interested to see who would end up defending Delphi, and []

Scientology school in LA sued over cover-up of coach imprisoned for sex abuse

[Randolph Jackson and the Delphi Academy in LA]

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: We remember this terrible story from 2017, when a coach went to prison for abusing kids at a charter school — but only after he had done []

Elvis Presley and Priscilla have previously unknown grandchild in Florida, lawsuit claims

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Um, kaboom. [What is this Substack thing, []