The Lost Children of Scientology-Jamie Mustard. Electrifying new video, his book about to come out "CHILDX"

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Soft White Underbelly interview and portrait of Jamie Mustard, a former scientologist now living in Portland, Oregon

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0:00 – Trauma In Scientology Nursery
0:42 – Childhood In A Scientology Slum
3:04 – Dorm Life And Molestation
5:01 – Poverty, Illness, And Medical Neglect
5:21 – Ground News Ad
7:06 – Emotional Suppression
9:01 – Child Labor And FBI Raid
13:27 – Identity, Indoctrination, And Family Separation
20:22 – Escape To Oregon
24:09 – Return To Scientology
25:25 – Punishment On Scientology Ship
28:07 – Start Of A New Life 32:08 – Overcoming Illiteracy
40:05 – Recovery & Therapy 52:13 – Message To Viewers

Jul 1, 2025
the Lost Children of Scientology
PRE-ORDERING Jamie’s Story Child X, on Amazon: https://a.co/d/chDfIwt To contact Jamie, reach/follow him on Instagram: @jamie_mustard, / jamie_mustard The doctor he’s referring to in his video is, Dr. Ryan Wood at NW Regen. You can DM Jamie on Instagram with questions. https://nwregen.com/

Highly recommended video
 
Oh Boy ! 52,580 views in 11 hours.

His book Child X is a gut-wrenching, courageous revelation: a firsthand account of growing up in the Sea Org, a rigid paramilitary wing of Scientology where children are subjected to indoctrination, dehumanization, and brutal punishment, all under the guise of “saving the planet.”
Jamie’s story mirrors what so many survivors of Scientology have endured: high-control communes, forced labor, sleep deprivation, public humiliation, violent “ethics” punishments.

The IRS must revoke Scientology’s ill-gotten 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status. This is not a religion. It is a criminal enterprise cloaked in the language of spirituality. It traffics in coercion, financial fraud, abuse of minors, and psychological torment. It violates public policy daily. The destruction it wreaks on families, critics, ex-members, and journalists is relentless and calculated.

 
Karen#1 said:
The IRS must revoke Scientology’s ill-gotten 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status. This is not a religion. It is a criminal enterprise cloaked in the language of spirituality. It traffics in coercion, financial fraud, abuse of minors, and psychological torment. It violates public policy daily. The destruction it wreaks on families, critics, ex-members, and journalists is relentless and calculated.
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Sadly, I don't think that will happen under Trump with Pam Bondi in there.
And, Miscavige would gladly line the pockets of most politicians.
 
In that video, according to Jamie Mustard, this is supposed to have happened at the PAC CCO when it was located in the Melrose Building when he was supposed to be a toddler (3 years old or less):

Jamie Mustard said:
If you did something bad they would order in this military style the public beatings of children And so they would drag they would make us all watch They would drag a kid on stage and wa make and then order the parent to strip the kid in front of us and beat the kid in front of us And I'll never get this image out of my head of this kid getting away from her mother His clothes are off and she's hitting him all over because he's squirming and it's hard And he runs to the side of this rays and there's an inner Navy member [very odd way to refer to a Sea Org member] in a un in a uniform an adult that drags him back to his mother and the beating continues.
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There are no reports from any former PAC Sea Org parents of any such thing ever happening and no reports from any other former PAC CCO kids of it either. Sheila Huber was JustShiela on Ex-Scn Message Board and there is a whole thread by her (linked below) about child care at the Melrose in 1977 with no mention of anything like this. As it happens, I was a nanny for AOLA (nominally still on the EPF) there and am mentioned in her story, too.

This person is egregiously slandering Sheila Huber, who recently passed away as well as other CCO staff from that time period, myself included. This never happened. It's a complete fabrication. The kindest excuse for this horrific lie is that he is suffering from False Memory Syndrome.

A Nanny Story

In 1977, before the complex was fully renovated, all Pac orgs sent their EPF to one central Estates org for EPF training, the Pac Training Org. The lineup was fairly long and all recruits were required to complete a series of classes called Product 0 minimally, but ideally also complete both...
forum.exscn.net
 
TheSneakster said:
Sheila Huber was JustShiela on Ex-Scn Message Board and there is a whole thread by her (linked below) about child care at the Melrose in 1977 with no mention of anything like this. As it happens, I was a nanny for AOLA (nominally still on the EPF) there and am mentioned in her story, too.
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i can't immediately figure out his age, but he looks on the young side to me, so what if he was born in the late '70s and what he's describing was in the years after that, maybe even into the early 1980s? and you don't remember him from when you were there, do you?

everything else that i hear at the start of the interview sounds like what i've read about terrible conditions in SO nurseries, and then what happened with young children.

LRH put children in chain lockers and oversaw adults being 'overboarded', and his protégé DM is known to beat people. public beatings of children sound like just what he would have approved of and his followers might have carried out at times.

and wouldn't it be following your own common line of argumentation to say that if you weren't for certain in the place in question at the time in question -- which apparently is not known precisely -- then you have no basis for addressing what happened there and then?
 
I don’t doubt any of this
I think Jamie Mustard is exposing the truth about this evil cult.

This is the ugly hidden truths of children growing up in Scientology.

Our good friend and X- Sciento left her kid at a Scientology daycare shit hole when her child was a baby while she went on course.
It was a disgusting hell-hole but she was a single mother with no extra money.
She would cry every time she left the baby but felt she “had to have” Scientology to survive
due to the mind control tactics used by the cult.

Scientology works when their mind control techniques are standardly applied.
 
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Jamie Mustard new book on childhood Scientology ~
Raves and Reviews

“As someone who’s deeply studied psychological indoctrination, Child X is a staggering triumph over the unimaginable. A profoundly moving and important book, at once haunting and beautiful.”
—Holt McCallany, lead actor, David Fincher’s Mindhunter (Netflix)

“Child X is a vivid, harrowing memoir of a childhood shadowed by hardship and illiteracy in a dark movement, ultimately of personal redemption and triumphant artistic self-expression. Its message is essential.”
—Gabor Maté, MD, New York Times bestselling author of The Myth of Normal

“A moving story about overcoming the impossible.”
—Hilary Bevan Jones, film and television producer and first female chairman of BAFTA

“A riveting trek through history and the resilience of humanity, Child X unpacks the legacy and unyielding resilience of a young boy just trying to survive. A book you can’t put down.”
—Jelani Memory, vice president and publisher at DK Books/Penguin Random House and winner of the Eleanor Roosevelt Award for Bravery in Literature

“Child X is brave and deeply moving. Profound and powerful, this work is a cinematic, literary masterpiece."
—Laura Hearn, former BBC news and current affairs journalist and producer

“As someone who’s seen war, Jamie’s story is an astonishing childhood of the brutality of a different kind of combat. A harrowing and inspiring journey of what a human being can overcome and endure. If blood runs through your veins, read this book.”
—Lt. Colonel Paul Toolan, Ranger and Commander of the 3rd Battalion, 5th Special Forces Group (ret.)

“Child X reveals that resilience and vulnerability are a superpower. Together they are the deafening whisper that says, I will not let my past dictate my future. I was blown away by the power of this story and how it can serve all of us.”
—Jimmy Akingbola, lead actor, In the Long Run (HBO)

“An exploration of the human experience that is at once tragic and soul-stirring. An exhilarating true story of what is possible for a human being to overcome—a vivid road map of the human experience.”
—John Faber, MD, forensic trauma doctor and former national medical director of behavioral health at Humana

“A stirring story of a boy born at the darkest edges of humanity and his road back. Raised by wolves, a lost child can find themselves. Emotional and profound.”
—Frank Ochberg, MD, founding board member of the International Society for Trauma Stress Studies who clinically defined Stockholm Syndrome for the FBI in 1975
 
Karen#1 said:
It is impressive that Jamie Mustard got Simon and Schuster as his publisher
and that even he had a master's degree from the prestigious London School of Economics

The London School of Economics and Political Science, established in 1895, is a public research university in London, England, and a member institution of the University of London.

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I agree - Jamie Mustard is an impressive human being as he took his shattered abusive neglectful childhood being treated as a slave - and pulled himself up by his bootstraps. His story is captivating and will reach more people exposing the horrors of Scientology that David Miscavige would like to keep hidden.

Perfect timing for a new book to add to what Ex Scientologists around the world refer to as
THE SP BASICS!! Get the book and read it!
Add it to your collection and put all of them in libraries across the globe.

Karen - you really may want to consider writing a book about your experiences.
It would be another amazing story of how you pulled yourself up by your bootstraps and survived and thrived.

These poor ex members have to deal with a lot to leave Scientology but stories like Jamie and others empower them to leave and then thrive!
 
@Sneakster

>>>There are no reports from any former PAC Sea Org parents of any such thing ever happening and no reports from any other former PAC CCO kids of it either. Sheila Huber was JustShiela on Ex-Scn Message Board and there is a whole thread by her (linked below) about child care at the Melrose in 1977 with no mention of anything like this. As it happens, I was a nanny for AOLA (nominally still on the EPF) there and am mentioned in her story, too.

This person is egregiously slandering Sheila Huber, who recently passed away as well as other CCO staff from that time period, myself included. This never happened. It's a complete fabrication. The kindest excuse for this horrific lie is that he is suffering from False Memory Syndrome.

A Nanny Story

In 1977, before the complex was fully renovated, all Pac orgs sent their EPF to one central Estates org for EPF training, the Pac Training Org. The lineup was fairly long and all recruits were required to complete a series of classes called Product 0 minimally, but ideally also complete both...
forum.exscn.net
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Scientology - Child Abuse - Mace Kingsley Ranch - Hidden Recording
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8K0ULqcf48
 
Karen#1 said:
@Sneakster said "It never happened:

Scientology Inc: Children beaten with paddles, molestations unreported
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuypNlSqjGs&t=10s
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The word it , in the context of what I wrote of above, is highly specific. I'm solely objecting to Jamie Mustard's claim that (in the early 1970's) , as punishment of Sea Org children in PAC Child Care, their parents were forced to strip their kids naked and beat them on stage in front of other Sea Org members.

I will repeat myself: in the 50+ years since he claims to have witnessed this horror (as a 2 or 3 year old toddler), no former PAC Child Care staff member and no other ex-SO Parent or child has ever reported anything like that happening in Sea Org child care. Nobody ever got RPF'd or declared a Suppressive Person for it as would have happened when reports of it reach Mary Sue Hubbard.

If it really happened, we would have heard it from victims and/or witnesses who were present long before Jamie Mustard showed up and made this claim. The anti-Scio critic community would already know all about it and have been using that fact against Co$ for decades.

You have presented (valid) evidence of very well known and pretty horrific child abuse that took place at Mace-Kingsley Ranch to support Mustard's claim. The only problems with that is that: (a) Mace-Kingsley did not exist before 1987, and (b) it was never a Sea Org childcare facility.

So, rather than handwaving away these problems with this particular tale of Jamie's, how about digging up some some eyewitnesses and persuading them to add their testimony to the record ?
 
TheSneakster said:
In that video, according to Jamie Mustard, this is supposed to have happened at the PAC CCO when it was located in the Melrose Building when he was supposed to be a toddler (3 years old or less):



There are no reports from any former PAC Sea Org parents of any such thing ever happening and no reports from any other former PAC CCO kids of it either. Sheila Huber was JustShiela on Ex-Scn Message Board and there is a whole thread by her (linked below) about child care at the Melrose in 1977 with no mention of anything like this. As it happens, I was a nanny for AOLA (nominally still on the EPF) there and am mentioned in her story, too.

This person is egregiously slandering Sheila Huber, who recently passed away as well as other CCO staff from that time period, myself included. This never happened. It's a complete fabrication. The kindest excuse for this horrific lie is that he is suffering from False Memory Syndrome.

A Nanny Story

In 1977, before the complex was fully renovated, all Pac orgs sent their EPF to one central Estates org for EPF training, the Pac Training Org. The lineup was fairly long and all recruits were required to complete a series of classes called Product 0 minimally, but ideally also complete both...
forum.exscn.net
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Well, I mentioned it in another ex-scn space. Here is my view:


I heard many people mention all sorts of beatings and corporal punishments taking place at the CoS ranches, or by nannies in other scientology ran facilities or buildings where cadets or other scientology kids lived.

I've never heard of kids being beaten on a stage.

However, I've talked to two different ex-scientologists who independently told me that one person would beat teens with a strap as punishment, but would lower the amount of blows if they allowed themselves to be beaten naked. That sort of a beating never happened to me (I guess she administered the nude beating to girls only). But I can confirm that she had a leather strap in the early 90s. She did strike me once with the strap for talking back.

There was also a nanny at the AB called Chris. Chris had a large bunch of keys on a metal ring. Chris would throw those keys baseball-pitcher style at kids when angry, which was very frequent. I think every single kid at the time I was there in the AB got those keys thrown at them at least a few times. They were heavy and it hurt quite badly, would leave black bruises. I had the keys thrown at me several times. Chris was my least favorite nanny - a frustrated, insecure, abusive little tyrant that nobody liked. Even Jeff Porter was nicer than Chris.


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I do not trust the type of treatement that Mustard advocates. I'm ready to change my mind once it becomes clinically tested and approved by a reputable medical body such as the European Medicines Agency (EMA).

Yet while I do not trust Mustard when it comes to some things, the idea of kids being stipped and beaten does not seem too outlandish for me within the broader context of what I know about abuse taking place behind close doors in scientology.
 
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Nit picking on location of children beaten is stupid.
It detracts from the essence and core of the fact that children were BEATEN within the cult
as Jamie Mustard reports.

~~~~A fact possibly not known by parents due to slave schedule and little parent time.

Scientologist Minister Wally Hanks beating 15 year old kid - GRAPHIC

 
So Jamie Mustard made it to the DAILY MAIL
  • Sunday, Aug 10th 2025 10PM 67°F 1AM 66°F 5-Day Forecast
    How I escaped a nightmare childhood in the 'Baby Factory' after a hellish punishment drove me to break my one-billion-year contract
  • As far back as he can remember, Jamie Mustard says his childhood was one of squalor, non-stop indoctrination, jaw-dropping exploitation and reckless indifference to his safety.

    The son of a Scientologist mother, he was placed in the care of the church's nursery months after his birth in 1970. His earliest memories are of the cracked, dust-caked linoleum floors of a Los Angeles apartment building that he calls the 'Baby Factory.'

    As a child, Mustard claims he signed a 'billion-year contract' to serve the church – a document that he could neither legibly affix his name to nor comprehend.

    But, years later, it was after spending two days in the engine room of the Scientology-owned ship – given the pyrrhic task of cleaning oil from the vessel's bilge pumps – that Mustard decided he had to escape.

    Now, more than three decades after what he calls his liberation, Mustard, 55, reveals in the book, Child X, the alleged inner workings of the Church of Scientology through the eyes of a man who was born into the religious movement.

    Childhood in the church, he writes, was to be endured rather than enjoyed; a life of regimentation, rote learning, and menial tasks, even for the youngest - all conducted under fake military protocols, including shouts of 'Aye, Sir' when responding to an adult.

    The convention was imposed by American science fiction writer L Ron Hubbard himself - who, after founding the organization 1954, spent years living on the high seas - building a pseudo-navy of Scientology devotees, called the Sea Organization.

    Mustard claims that children faced punishment – often severe – for any form of disobedience or failure to perform tasks assigned to them. Parents, Mustard says, were even sometimes ordered to spank their naked children on a stage in front of an audience.

    As far back as he can remember, Jamie Mustard says his childhood was one of squalor, non-stop indoctrination, jaw-dropping exploitation and reckless indifference to his safety

    READ MORE:
  • How I escaped my nightmare life in the 'Baby Factory'
 
TheSneakster said:
In that video, according to Jamie Mustard, this is supposed to have happened at the PAC CCO when it was located in the Melrose Building when he was supposed to be a toddler (3 years old or less):



There are no reports from any former PAC Sea Org parents of any such thing ever happening and no reports from any other former PAC CCO kids of it either. Sheila Huber was JustShiela on Ex-Scn Message Board and there is a whole thread by her (linked below) about child care at the Melrose in 1977 with no mention of anything like this. As it happens, I was a nanny for AOLA (nominally still on the EPF) there and am mentioned in her story, too.

This person is egregiously slandering Sheila Huber, who recently passed away as well as other CCO staff from that time period, myself included. This never happened. It's a complete fabrication. The kindest excuse for this horrific lie is that he is suffering from False Memory Syndrome.

A Nanny Story

In 1977, before the complex was fully renovated, all Pac orgs sent their EPF to one central Estates org for EPF training, the Pac Training Org. The lineup was fairly long and all recruits were required to complete a series of classes called Product 0 minimally, but ideally also complete both...
forum.exscn.net
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Sorry for the de-rail.....

I was not aware that JustShiela had passed..... :rose:

Is there a thread about this...and when?

I was kinda friendly with her.....we had exchanged email addresses....but didn
t really stay in touch but a few times, after she stopped posting.

LIked her real estate posts and how her new home was going....
 
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Lee #28 said:
Sorry for the de-rail.....

I was not aware that JustShiela had passed..... :rose:

Is there a thread about this...and when?

I was kinda friendly with her.....we had exchanged email addresses....but didn
t really stay in touch but a few times, after she stopped posting.

LIked her real estate posts and how her new home was going....
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Sheila Huber

Sheila has passed away. She was a really cool person who was interested in life and in other people. She had keen insights with respect to the Scientology mess. And-one of my favorite things about her was her love and understanding of animals...
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When I read Jamie Mustard’s interview in the Daily Mail, I wasn’t just reading the account of another survivor—I was reading a mirror of my own life inside Scientology.

I can verify that his story is not exaggerated. I lived in Scientology for 40 years. I saw these nurseries. I saw the neglect.
Jamie recounts signing a “billion-year contract” as a child—a legal absurdity, but in Scientology, symbolism matters. It wasn’t about a valid signature. It was about planting the belief that your life, your soul, and your future were owned by the organization, forever. I remember seeing young children proudly holding those contracts, unaware they were pledging their entire existence to something they could not yet understand.

My son Alexander Jentzsch signed his billion year contract at 8 years old. The Daily Mail told his story. Scientology will deny all Jamie's story, as it always does. But for those of us who were of us who were there, Jamie’s account is a painfully accurate reflection of what actually occurred.


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