Scientology leader's niece reveals Church secrets
A headquarters for the Church of Scientology in Clearwater, Florida on January 16, 2013. The Church of Scientology has lashed out at a new book by its leader's niece, which recounts a stolen childhood and how she was brainwashed and cut off from her family before eventually escaping.
A headquarters for the Church of Scientology in Clearwater, Florida on January 16, 2013. The Church of Scientology has lashed out at a new book by its leader's niece, which recounts a stolen childhood and how she was brainwashed and cut off from her family before eventually escaping.

AFP - The Church of Scientology has lashed out at a new book by its leader's niece, which recounts a stolen childhood and how she was brainwashed and cut off from her family before eventually escaping.

In "Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology And My Harrowing Escape," Jenna Miscavige-Hill -- whose uncle David Miscavige runs the secretive group -- also claims she was forced to work as a child.

But a spokesman for the Church said her claims were "false" and denounced "efforts to exploit Mr Miscavige's name."

"The Church has long respected the family unit while accommodating and helping those raising children," Karin Pouw, spokeswoman for the Church of Scientology International, told AFP.

"The Church does not engage in any activities that mistreat, neglect or force children to engage in manual labor. The Church follows all laws with respect to children," she said, accusing Miscavige-Hill of "apostate behavior."

In the book, published in February, the 29-year-old tells of hard labour she and other children were forced to do in the 1990s in the Ranch, in a remote part of the California desert.

The Ranch, near San Jacinto, 90 miles (150 kilometers) southeast of Los Angeles, was "like a military boot camp, with grueling drills, endless musters, exhaustive inspections, and arduous physical labor that no child should have to do."

The children saw their parents for only a few hours per week. They did not receive any education in the traditional sense, said Miscavige-Hill, who lived there for six years, until she was 12 years old.

Those interned there until 2000 were the children of the Sea Org, the elite of the Church founded by science fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard. They worked 14 hours a day, seven days a week for a weekly wage of $45.

The details fit in with another book which came out in January in the United States, "Going Clear" by journalist Lawrence Wright, which the Church described as "so ludicrous it belongs in a supermarket tabloid."

Among other back-breaking tasks the Scientologist children had to drag enormous rocks to build a wall, or dig irrigation channels under the blazing desert sun, said Miscavige-Hill.

"The conditions we worked under would have been tough for a grown man, and yet any complaints, backflashing (Scientology term for talking back), any kind of questioning was instantly met with disciplinary action," she said.

The Church of Scientology's celebrity members include Tom Cruise, John Travolta, Juliette Lewis and the singer Beck.

But the stars were shielded from the dark side of the shadowy organization. "There was never a risk that they would get exposed to child labor or something similar that the Church didn't want them to see," said Miscavige-Hill.

"Celebrities wouldn't know from talking to them (to Sea Org members) or watching them whether they'd been paid their forty-five dollars that week, or if they missed their families."

The ex-Scientologist, who like Wright and other ex-Church members including Canadian director and screenwriter Paul Haggis -- who published an open letter when he left -- also criticizes its reported "disconnection" policy.

The rule, which the Church denies having, allegedly bans all Scientologists from any contact with ex-members who criticize the organization.

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