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Scientology
[link=https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-05-27/danny-masterson-rape-trial-secretive-scientology-polices]https://www.latimes.com/c…ve-scientology-polices[/link]
[h1][b]Scientologys secrets spill into open in Danny Masterson rape case[/b][/h1]
The Church of Scientology works hard to keep its inner workings out of the public eye.
It has hired private detectives to keep tabs on straying members, and experts say its lawyers vigorously defend against legal incursions, arguing to judges that Scientologys beliefs are not courtroom fodder.
But at a hearing last week in the rape case against actor Danny Masterson, church officials were unable to stop their practices from being debated in open court.
Three women took the stand to recount sexual assaults allegedly committed by the celebrity Scientologist, and each told similar stories of how church officials tried to stop them from reporting Masterson to police.
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One woman testified that a church official instructed her to write a statement showing she would take responsibility for a 2001 assault, in which she alleges Masterson raped her while she was unconscious.
Another woman, who was born into Scientology and planned to report Masterson to police in 2004, [link=https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-05-19/in-danny-masterson-rape-case-accuser-says-scientologists-tried-to-protect-actor]a year after she said he raped her at his Hollywood mansion,[/link] recounted how a Scientology attorney showed up at her familys home. The lawyer, according to the woman, warned that she would be expelled from the church if she went to authorities.In ruling that there was sufficient evidence against Masterson to allow the case to proceed toward trial, {Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Charlaine{ Olmedo concluded that Scientology has an expressly written doctrine that not only discourages, but prohibits its members from reporting one another to law enforcement. The policy explained why several of the women did not report Mastersons alleged crimes to the police for more than a decade, the judge found.
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