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Wally Hanks, the employee at the 1990s Scientologist-run Mace-Kingsley Ranch in New Mexico who was heard terrorizing a child on an audio tape played back for an episode of Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath that aired on October 10, died Friday night at a hospital in Southern California. He was 70 years old. Continue reading Wally Hanks, Scientology ranch terror recently portrayed on ‘Leah Remini,’ dies at 70
Tuesday night, Leah Remini’s A&E series once again provided harrowing stories of what it can be like to grow up in Scientology. Her guests, Mimi Faust and Christi Gordon, spoke about the frightening result when Hubbard’s ideas about children being adults in small packages gets put into action. Continue reading KID CORPS: Scientology’s internal documents lay out its disturbing ideas about children
[Scientology’s playground for wealthy patsies]December 5 will mark the 22nd anniversary of the death of Lisa McPherson. Two years ago, for the 20th anniversary, we produced a lengthy series re-reporting her final days in real time, to get a sense of how her terrible experience played out over several weeks. Continue reading Scientology’s Flag Building brain injury: In Clearwater, it’s déjà vu all over again
[Police outside the Budapest org. Photo: Szabó Gábor]Yesterday, when we saw news stories pop up briefly announcing that the Budapest Scientology “Ideal Org” was raided by police, we knew just who to turn to. Those stories said that some 50 police officers carried out the raid, but there were virtually no other details. So we asked our man in Hungary, Péter Bonyai, for the inside scoop. Here’s what he told us late last night… Continue reading Raid in Hungary: Scientology’s Cold War tactics are colliding with 21st Century data privacy
Continuing its unbroken record for doing exactly the wrong thing every time its reputation is in question, Scientology responded to this week’s Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath in characteristic fashion with an overheated slut-shaming of reality TV star Mimi Faust, and by calling Christi Gordon “disturbed.” Continue reading Scientology slut-shames Mimi Faust after destroying her family because … it’s a church!
In 2012, we talked to Mimi Faust for the Village Voice after she had dropped a bombshell on VH1’s popular show Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta. At 13, Mimi had been abandoned by her mother, who chose Scientology’s Sea Organization over raising her own daughter. Mimi then became homeless. Continue reading On tonight’s ‘Leah Remini,’ reality star Mimi Faust takes on Scientology’s harm to family
[Saddest bookstore ever at the Pasadena org, selling only one author]Marcy Sargeant of the Mace-Kingsley Family Center in Clearwater, Florida, held a seminar at Scientology’s Pasadena “Ideal Org” on Sunday. Continue reading Crashing a ‘Mace-Kingsley’ event in Pasadena to get some answers about Scientology and kids
Rod Keller continues to keep us up to date on Scientology’s “Ideal Org” program, as David Miscavige pushes to open a number of new facilities one right after the other. Continue reading David Miscavige is gambling on Birmingham for Scientology success, and who knows why
About two years ago, a reader first made us aware of a shocking passage in L. Ron Hubbard’s book Dianetics that somehow seems to have been overlooked by generations of commenters on that important volume, the very basis for what became the Church of Scientology. Continue reading Coming to grips with Scientology’s most vile secret, which was hiding in plain sight
Every week when there’s a new episode of A&E’s Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath, we look to see how the Church of Scientology is going to react on its website dedicated to attacking Leah and the people who show up as her guests. Continue reading After pausing to reflect, Marie Poulin takes on Scientology’s attack of her ‘Leah Remini’ spot
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