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(NewsNation) — Jenna Miscavige, the niece of Scientology person David Miscavige, says the puerility she spent toiling for the religion makes sense, astatine slightest to adherents of the religion.
The erstwhile Scientologist described to “Banfield” however she was isolated astatine a boarding schoolhouse from the property of 6 to 12 and worked for 30 hours a week doing hard labour that included digging trenches, hauling rocks and adjacent making the church’s “E-meters.” The Church of Scientology sees radical arsenic immortal spiritual beings who transportation to different assemblage erstwhile their contiguous 1 dies, she said.
“So, really, a kid is conscionable a tone successful a tiny body. The conception of children isn’t truly real,” she said. “They fundamentally usage this content to warrant each mode of ills successful Scientology."
Family, she said, is simply a “fake construct” to the church.
Who is the niece of Scientology person David Miscavige?
Jenna Miscavige is the girl of David Miscavige‘s older brother, Ron, and was a third-generation Scientologist who grew up successful the church's Sea Organization, oregon Sea Org, a radical of the astir devout members.
In 2004, she met different Scientology member, Dallas Hill, connected a religion ngo to Australia. The 2 were capable to entree the net and recovered material, including the website Operation Clambake, that criticized the church. They got joined and near the religion erstwhile Hill was 22 years old.
The Church of Scientology declined an invitation from "Banfield" to rebut Jenna Miscavige's claims connected television, but successful a statement, the enactment said her stories are filled with contradictions. Representatives accidental Jenna Miscavige was expelled from the religion and is trying to get backmost astatine the organization.
Miscavige, agelong an outspoken professional of Scientology, precocious renewed her attacks connected the religion done a TikTok leafage that features tell-all videos. She antecedently authored a publication “Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape.”
Jenna Miscavige says she was interrogated arsenic a child
Jenna Miscavige says she considers her attraction arsenic a kid successful the religion to beryllium abusive. She described interrogation-like interviews successful which she would beryllium asked questions of a intersexual quality portion connected to an E-meter, a benignant of prevarication detector.
“I kissed a lad erstwhile I was 15 years old, and to them, that was unethical. And they’d say, ‘OK, what did you do?’ And they’d say, ‘What parts of him were touching you?’” she told "Banfield" connected Thursday.
The religion ignored allegations of misconduct against members and forbid different subordinate from going to the authorities, she alleges.
"Otherwise, you volition get expelled," she explained. "Basically, you hazard losing everyone you've ever known your full life. You hazard losing your occupation opportunities, particularly if you grew up determination with nary modular education. So, getting expelled is simply a large deal."
Scientology codification of soundlessness reflected successful star's rape trial: Ex-member
Jenna Miscavige says this codification of soundlessness was reflected successful the intersexual battle proceedings of "That '70s Show" histrion Danny Masterson, a Scientologist charged with raping 3 women successful the aboriginal 2000s. He was convicted successful 2023 of sexually assaulting 2 victims and is serving a condemnation of 30 years to beingness successful a California authorities prison.
The women who accused Masterson of rape said they had been members of the Church of Scientology and claimed the enactment tried to silence them; religion representatives denied the allegations.
"They judge that this atrocious PR for Scientology fundamentally stops them from being capable to prevention mankind," Miscavige said.
What is Scientology?
Scientology describes itself arsenic a religion founded successful the 1950s by subject fabrication writer L. Ron Hubbard.
Hubbard based the religion connected the mentation that radical could beryllium held backmost by “engrams,” oregon past antagonistic events, immoderate from erstwhile lives. He suggested the engrams could beryllium flooded by an “auditing” process, successful which trained Scientology members would usage E-meters to measurement reactions.
David Miscavige is called the “ecclesiastical person of the Scientology religion” and besides serves arsenic president of the committee of the Religious Technology Center, according to the church’s website.
