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Charges dropped for Jan Eastgate - police felt they were being used in church case by: Janet Fife-Yeomans
Sydney/NSW
High-ranking Scientologist Jan Eastgate / Pic: Stephen Cooper Source: The Daily Telegraph POLICE who laid criminal charges against one of the world's leading members of the Church of Scientology believed they were being used as part of a campaign by senator Nick Xenophon. As prosecutors yesterday dropped the two charges of perverting the course of justice against Jan Eastgate, internal police documents obtained under Freedom of Information laws have revealed officers' concerns. The charges alleged that in 1985, Ms Eastgate intimidated an 11-year-old girl and her mother into not reporting sex abuse allegations within the church. The girl's stepfather pleaded guilty to aggravated sexual assault in 2001. When the victim went to Balmain Police Station in May 2010 to make a complaint against Ms Eastgate, she was accompanied by Mr Xenophon, the independent Senator from South Australia, and the media. Mr Xenophon had been pushing for an inquiry into Scientology beforehand. When the woman returned four days later to Balmain Police Station to make her statement, she was accompanied by Mr Xenophon's then-political adviser Rohan Wenn. The police recorded that ABC's Lateline, which had interviewed the woman, was screening the following week . "(Senator) Xenophon is pushing for a senate inquiry into the Church of Scientology," said the police in their internal report. "Following this interview (with the woman), investigating police are of the view that this matter ... will be used as a political tool to push towards a Senate inquiry being held." An Office of the NSW Director of Public Prosecutions spokeswoman said yesterday the charges were dropped "because there was no reasonable prospect of a conviction". Ms Eastgate, who left Sydney in 1993 and is now international president of the Scientology-linked Citizens Commission on Human Rights, based in Los Angeles, said she had always maintained her innocence. Mr Xenophon denied he had been using the police or the woman because parliament had already refused his call for an inquiry into Scientology. |
Senior scientologist charged with perverting justice
Video: Top Scientologist charged with perverting justice (Lateline) Jan Eastgate, has been charged for a second time One of the Church of Scientology's senior international figures, Jan Eastgate, has been charged for a second time in Sydney. Last year, Ms Eastgate was charged with perverting the course of justice in relation to allegations that she coached an 11-year-old girl to lie to police and community services about the sexual abuse she suffered at the hands of her Scientologist stepfather. The allegations were raised publicly for the first time on Lateline in 2010. On Tuesday, she was charged with another offence relating to perverting the course of justice. Eastgate is the international president of the Citizens Commission on Human Rights, an organisation founded by the Church of Scientology. She was awarded the Church's Freedom Medal for promoting human rights in 1988. Eastgate is due to appear at a committal hearing at Sydney's Downing Centre on May 15. She has yet to enter a plea. |
Church of Scientology faces backpay bill to former members By Renee Viellaris
The nation's workplace watchdog has received confidential statements from several former Scientology workers who claim they were underpaid, or not paid, for at least a decade. It is understood some alleged victims told the Fair Work Ombudsman that they were paid only $2 a week for close to full-time work, and had to rely on welfare. The Sunday Herald Sun has learnt the Ombudsman will soon release its findings after an 18-month probe. In a statement it said: "The Fair Work Ombudsman recently provided a draft copy of its initial finding to the relevant parties for feedback and is currently considering those responses". Laws prevent parties from discussing the contents of interim reports. Insiders said the church had failed to pay core staff - the equivalent of paid staff in other religious organisations - for such a long time that any order for backpay could bankrupt the organisation, or it would need to be bailed out by its US arm. |
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Senior Scientology Figure Criminally Charged After Allegedly Telling Minor To Lie About Abuse By Jonathan Turley
One of
the most senior figures in Australia’s Church of Scientology
has been criminally charged in a case of sexual abuse. Jan Eastgate
is accused of encouraging a young girl to lie and deny allegations
of sexual abuse in the church. In the meantime, another leading
Church figure, Tom Cruise, is being sued by ex-Scientologist,
Peter Letterese, for $250 million under a RICO claim that includes
allegations of bribing a judge.
The involvement of Eastgate is notable because she is the head of the church’s “International Commission on Human Rights” and was given the Church of Scientology’s Freedom Medal for her work against psychology treatments. The mother and young girl, 11-year-old Carmen Rainer, said that Eastgate told the girl to provide false statements about sexual abuse by her stepfather. Rainer also said that senior Scientology members told her that the abuse was punishment for being bad in a previous life. Another leading Scientologist, Carly Crutchfield, who is a television personality as well as developer, is under fire for alleged shady dealings in Australia. Her business seminars were previously criticized as fronts for recruiting people into Scientology. The allegations against Eastgate have been cited by critics of the Church as a byproduct of the Church’s elevation of its own laws over those of society. The Church has its own legal system and includes such legal personalities as Fox News’ Greta Van Susteran. Eastgate denies the allegations, which could present some challenging questions if the prosecutors are going to pursue allegations of other church leaders encouraging false testimony or discouraging cooperation. There is obviously a close analogy to the allegations of such misconduct in the Catholic Church.
Wealth seminar a front for Scientology recruitment, say ex-members Kate Dennehy
Scientologists
are using a get-rich-quick seminar at the Gold Coast this weekend
to groom potential new members for the controversial church,
say former members. Carly
Crutchfield, the key speaker at a 'Massive Results Bootcamp
seminar' at the Hyatt Regency Hotel Sanctuary Cove confirmed
that she and two other main speakers are Church of Scientology
members.
She said the others speakers were Gareth Jekel, a business consultant and managing director of Performia Australia based in Melbourne and Tony Melvin who is billed as a finance expert and author who works at the Knowledge Centre in Sydney. Mr Jekel was Young Australian (business achiever) of the Year in 1996 and says on his website: "I am receiving Scientology counselling so I can be free and not have the usual traps that normally stop us achieving all that we want to do". Ms Crutchfield, 28, says she is a "multimillionaire property developer educator" of Sydney. She denies she and the other speakers are using the free seminars to tout for new members. "The seminars are not a way of promoting Scientology," she said. "My business is my business and my religion is my religion." She said she moved from the Gold Coast when she was about seven-years-old to live with her parents in Sydney. She was raised as a Scientologist as both her parents belonged to the church, she said. She said she left school at 12 because she was frustrated with the teachers and was largely a "self-taught millionaire". The church was started by American science fiction author L. Ron Hubbard, in 1953. Celebrity members include actors Tom Cruise and John Travolta. Former church members contacted Independent South Australian senator Nick Xenophon who this month used parliamentary privilege to accuse it of being an organisation that hid behind "so-called religious beliefs". A spokeswoman for the church said the allegations were untrue. Another bootcamp seminar was held in Sydney in September. Former members and other non-members who do not want to be identified for fear of retribution said they had copies of emails that indicated church organisers were hoping to recruit members at that seminar. ''Any former member would know the church organisers try to get new members at seminars like this even though Scientology is never mentioned at first,'' one said. Allegedly, two separate emails - seen by Fairfax Media - were written about the Sydney seminar, one for the general public and another for Scientology members. Members were instructed to cut and paste the information and send to non-Scientologists to publicise the seminar. It lauded Ms Crutchfield's achievements and listed topics to be covered including 'unleashing the potential that's hidden within', 'how to confront and handle any condition you are faced with in life' and 'how to create something out of nothing'. The other email for members allegedly said of the Sydney seminar: "It's the 2 day Massive Results Bootcamp, created & delivered by Carly Crutchfield - a ... Scientologist who has recently done the 3 L Rundowns (a high level scientology course) as well as become a Patron Meritorious of the IAS (International Association of Scientologists). ''Carly is teaming up with fellow successful Scientologists Gareth Jekel and Tony Melvin who will also speak at this 2 day event. Currently about 1000 people are expected to attend and massive outflow is occurring which will increase attendance further. "There is an amazing opportunity to get LRH tech (the doctrines of L. Ron Hubbard) into society through the right strata - upstat and business minded people. "The driving purpose behind this activity is to introduce people to LRH Admin Tech and eventually position LRH tech as THE answer in business." Ms Crutchfield said she had not seen the second email but suspected it had been invented by the anonymous group that is anti-Scientology. A lawyer who has researched the church for two years said many former Scientologists told her the ''tech'' or information at first seemed helpful and interesting. ''But in a very short period of time they found themselves unable to resist the pressure being exerted upon them to comply with the demands of the organisation,'' she said. Website Information says Ms Crutchfield is the CEO of CCORP Pty Ltd, ''an umbrella company to several national and international multimillion dollar companies'' including CResults. ''CResults was founded by entrepreneur and self-made millionaire Carly Crutchfield to educate and facilitate you in achieving similar success and wealth that she herself has created from nothing but a dream,'' the website says. ''Carly Crutchfield is a self-made millionaire. She runs several national and international companies and has built them from the ground up. Carly has never before opened the door to her personal success strategies for life and business. Now, for the first time ever you will be able to learn the exact actions to take, the exact steps to follow to be able to see similar results for yourself.'' Ms Crutchfield said on Thursday 600 people had booked places at this weekend's free seminar and she hoped a further 300 would attend over the two days. The seminars usually cost $5990 per person to attend, she said. |
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Heat on ACCC over Scientologist TV star
Denies
debts: Carly Crutchfield admits cancelling deals but denies
she owes those investors money. Picture: Tim Hunter Source:
The Daily Telegraph
A HIGH-PROFILE Sydney developer and senior Scientologist is being investigated over a series of property deals. The inquiry by the Australian Securities and Investment Commission into Carly Crutchfield - a millionaire property developer who boasts she has been involved in projects around Australia worth $300 million - was launched after Senator Nick Xenophon sent a dossier to ASIC last month. Senator Xenophon, a vocal opponent of the Church of Scientology, sent a detailed submission to ASIC, which referred the documents to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission. Queensland woman Larmie Musson, who took her concerns to Senator Xenophon, claims Ms Crutchfield owes her $4.5 million. Ms Musson alleges she signed a binding "unconditional" contract with Ms Crutchfield to develop her oceanfront mansion at Redcliffe, in Brisbane, into an 11-apartment complex. The $5 million deal was made after Ms Musson met Ms Crutchfield at a development seminar in 2008. The contract would have allegedly secured Ms Musson cash and a penthouse. Ms Crutchfield, 29, allegedly dissolved the development company in March over concerns about a council development approval. Ms Musson claims she is out-of-pocket because the development was scrapped. "I'm selling in a depressed market," Ms Musson said. Another alleged deal involved Brisbane widow Larraine Bell, who lives in the suburb of Thornlands. Ms Bell claims she was originally promised $1.5 million for the rezoning of her land at the front of her property. The deal stalled and was later cancelled, not long after Ms Bell secured a $290,000 loan at high interest and she was forced to sell her home. Ms Crutchfield, who starred in the TV series The Secret Millionaire, admits she walked away from both deals but denies owing any of her investors money or having any personal involvement in Ms Bell's property deal. "There has been no indication from ACCC or ASIC that they have instituted actions to investigate my company," she said. "I don't think this story is actually about Carly Crutchfield or my company. It's become about religion." Ms Crutchfield and her business partners are not believed to have wrongfully breached contracts. All have denied any wrongdoing and Ms Crutchfield said she was considering legal action against Ms Musson for defamation and discrimination. |
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Jan Eastgate (CCDH - CCHR)
Jan Eastgate
responsable de la commission scientologue des Citoyens pour
les Droits de l'Homme (CCDH) en Australie, aurait empêché
une jeune fille de 11 ans de porter plainte pour abus sexuel
contre son beau-père.
Madame Eastgate a menacé cette jeune fille de la confier avec son frère aux services sociaux si elle déposait une plainte pénale ! Le passeport à Madame Eastgate a été confisqué pour éviter qu'elle quitte l'Australie. Scientology “Human Rights” Leader Arrested CCDH: Jan Eastgate, the international president of the Citizens' Commission on Human Rights, threatened and intimidated Carmen Rainer when she was 11 into providing false statements to police about the sexual abuse she suffered from her stepfather.
Jan Eastgate has been arrested in Australia for allegedly intimidating an 11-year old girl who had been sexually abused by her stepfather. Jan Eastgate, the head of the church’s “International Commission on Human Rights” which attacks psychology, has been charged by NSW Police with perverting the course of justice. According the ABC TV’s Lateline, police have alleged Eastgate intimidated a then 11-year-old Carmen Rainer to provide false statements about sexual abuse by her stepfather. Ms Rainer has alleged that Ms Eastgate, who was then head of the church’s citizens’ commission on human rights in Australia, told her she should deny any charges of the sexual abuse or she and her brother would be taken away by social services.
Top Scientologist charged with perverting course of justice By Steve Cannane
Video: Top Scientologist charged with perverting course of justice (ABC Lateline - May 31, 2011) Police allege Jan Eastgate threatened and intimidated a girl into providing false statements. One of the Church of Scientology's most senior figures, Jan Eastgate, has been arrested and charged in Sydney. 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 Citizens' Commission on Human Rights, an organisation founded by the Church of Scientology that campaigns against psychiatry. She was awarded the church's freedom medal for promoting human rights in 1988. Police allege Eastgate threatened and intimidated Carmen Rainer when she was 11 into providing false statements to police about the sexual abuse she suffered from her stepfather. Ms Rainer outlined these allegations for the first time on Lateline last year. Eastgate declined to be interviewed at the time the allegations first aired on Lateline. In an email to Lateline last year she described the allegations by Carmen and Phoebe Rainer as "egregiously false". She did not respond to an email sent by Lateline on May 30, 2011. Eastgate has been granted conditional bail and asked to surrender her passport.
A SENIOR member of the Church of Scientology has been charged by police for intimidating a young girl who wanted to report sexual abuse allegations within the church. Jan Eastgate, the head of the church's "International Commission on Human Rights" which attacks psychology, has been charged by NSW Police with perverting the course of justice. According the ABC TV's Lateline, police have alleged Eastgate intimidated a then 11-year-old Carmen Rainer to provide false statements about sexual abuse by her stepfather. Ms Rainer has alleged that Ms Eastgate, who was then head of the church's citizens' commission on human rights in Australia, told her she should deny any charges of the sexual abuse or she and her brother would be taken away by social services. Ms Rainer's mother Phoebe has also admitted Ms Eastgate told both of them what to say and to lie to police and in an interview with the Department of Community Services. Ms Eastgate previously called the allegations "egregiously false". She she has not commented since being charged. Ms Eastgate has been asked by NSW police to surrender her passport. Ms Rainer had previously said that she was told by senior Scientology members that abuse was punishment for being bad in a previous life. "She said, 'Just say no, keep repeating that'," Ms Rainer told the ABC in an interview last year. "They told me it was my fault because I'd been bad in a past life. I believed them." Ms Eastgate was the recipient of the Church of Scientology's Freedom Medal for her work with human rights, primarily aimed at uncovering problems with psychology treatments. The news comes after the Australian Securities & Investments Commission earlier this month launched an inquiry into the business dealings of a Sydney property developer and senior Scientologist over a series of property deals. The inquiry by ASIC into Carly Crutchfield was launched after independent senator Nick Xenophon - a vocal opponent of Scientology - sent a dossier to the corporate watchdog last month. Senator Xenophon is calling for a judicial inquiry into the church.
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Exposing Scientology through streaming video
Ces reportages vidéo dénoncent les dangers de la thérapie de scientologie. La scientologie est une nébuleuse sur laquelle ont enquêté de nombreux journalistes. Il suffit de répondre une fois à un questionnaire pour recevoir des prospectus et des invitations. Au départ elle peut même paraître séduisante mais très rapidement les premières dérives apparaissent. |
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