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 One of the Church of Scientology's most senior figures, Jan Eastgate, has been arrested and charged in Sydney, ABC -- the Australian Broadcasting Corporation -- reports.
She has been charged with perverting the course of justice, in relation to allegations she coached an 11-year-old girl to lie to police and community services about the sexual abuse she suffered from her stepfather who was a member of the Church of Scientology.
Eastgate is the international president of the Citizen's Commission on Human Rights, an front group founded by the Church of Scientology that engages in hate campaigns against psychiatry.
 A Fort Wayne, Indiana woman who forced her 2-year-old son to drink a concoction of olive oil and vinegar because she thought it would exorcise a demon from him has been convicted of murder.
Lawson, 31, forced her two-year-old son Jezaih to drink a vile mixture of olive oil and vinegar as part of a ritual to drive the devil from his body. As he choked on the liquid she held her hand over his mouth to stop him vomiting and crushed his neck.
 It is more than a decade since more than 1,000 people perished in a church building in Kanungu, Uganda, after what is believed to have been a well-planned move by cult leaders who thought the world was coming to an end on December 31, 1999 but it never came to pass.
Much as time has passed, people still feel the effect of the Movement for the Restoration of the 10 Commandments killings.
Nearly 200 people gathered at Oakland's Evergreen Cemetery on Sunday to dedicate a newly completed memorial to the victims of the 1978 mass murder and suicide at Jonestown, Guyana, organizers said.
Controversially the memorial includes the name of the Peoples Temple cult's leader -- mass murdered Jim Jones. More Recent Articles |
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