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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]

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 […]

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 […]

What Alex Barnes-Ross told East Grinstead councillors about Scientology abuses

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Yesterday, former London staffer Alex Barnes-Ross had the opportunity to speak about Scientology’s abuses with two councillors in East Grinstead, the English town where Scientology has its UK headquarters. And he explains how their […]

Jane Doe 1: Scientology’s forced arbitration shouldn’t apply in a lawsuit about sex abuse

[Judge Robert Broadbelt and defendant David Miscavige]

Two weeks from today, the forced-marriage lawsuit filed by Jane Doe 1 will face its biggest challenge so far, and one that readers here at the Bunker are only too familiar with: A motion from Scientology asking the court to force the case into its own internal “religious […]

Scientology, abuse, and forgiveness: Val Ross on the men who did her wrong

[Valerie Ross’s story last week created such a reaction we asked her for another one, and we’re glad we did.]

When I was growing up, we used to rotate our summer vacations between Salt Lake City, where my mom’s family lived, and St. George, where my dad’s family lived. I loved my dad’s brother, Bert. We […]

English councillors squirm over question about Scientology abuses

Yesterday, Alexander “Apostate Alex” Barnes-Ross attended (virtually) a meeting of the East Grinstead Town Council, the city where Scientology maintains its UK Headquarters at Saint Hill. Alex spoke up during the period for public questions, and then sent us this account of how it all went […]

Leah Remini spells out Scientology’s abuses in stunning new court declaration

We’re still going through the more than 700 pages of new court documents that Leah Remini and her legal team submitted to the court Friday in response to Scientology’s attempt to gut her lawsuit against her former […]

Mirriam Francis: Scientology’s system of abuse was exposed by the Danny Masterson trials

[Today’s very special guest post is by Mirriam Francis, who appeared in the second season of Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath as a young Scientologist whose abuse by her father was covered up by the […]

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