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TONY ORTEGA
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This morning the Times of London revealed that one of its reporters had spent months at Scientology’s Edinburgh “org” in an undercover investigation.
Following up on allegations made by former London staffer Alex Barnes-Ross and former Edinburgh staffer Amir Essalhi, reporter Tom Ball confirmed that the Edinburgh office was recruiting children as young as 13 to become poorly paid workers at the Scotland facility, and targeting children who were classified as being home-schooled and could spend all day working for Scientology rather than doing any school at all.
Essalhi told the Times that after some of the Edinburgh’s org executives had spent time in 2024 at Scientology’s “spiritual mecca” in Clearwater, Florida, they had come back with new orders to push for recruitment so the Edinburgh org could go “Ideal,” part of Scientology leader David Miscavige’s 23-year effort to replace existing churches with more expensive and larger locations.
But Essalhi pointed out that the main problem with a recruiting push was that the public is not interested in Scientology, which has suffered from years of journalistic exposes and bad press generally. So the focus on getting new workers was turned on the children of existing members.
“Scientology can’t recruit people. The buildings are empty and they can’t get enough staff members. So the strategy goes into internal recruitment. [They think] ‘Well, what if I can get my mum involved? What if I can get my cousin involved? What if I can get my nephew, my daughter, my whatever?’” Amir told the Times. “So when those guys came back [from Clearwater], it was go, go, go. There was a significant amount of pressure to get as many staff as possible, because now they’ve come back, they’ve got all the training, they know all of the policy, it’s been drilled for three years.”
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[/td]Following up on allegations made by former London staffer Alex Barnes-Ross and former Edinburgh staffer Amir Essalhi, reporter Tom Ball confirmed that the Edinburgh office was recruiting children as young as 13 to become poorly paid workers at the Scotland facility, and targeting children who were classified as being home-schooled and could spend all day working for Scientology rather than doing any school at all.
Essalhi told the Times that after some of the Edinburgh’s org executives had spent time in 2024 at Scientology’s “spiritual mecca” in Clearwater, Florida, they had come back with new orders to push for recruitment so the Edinburgh org could go “Ideal,” part of Scientology leader David Miscavige’s 23-year effort to replace existing churches with more expensive and larger locations.
But Essalhi pointed out that the main problem with a recruiting push was that the public is not interested in Scientology, which has suffered from years of journalistic exposes and bad press generally. So the focus on getting new workers was turned on the children of existing members.
“Scientology can’t recruit people. The buildings are empty and they can’t get enough staff members. So the strategy goes into internal recruitment. [They think] ‘Well, what if I can get my mum involved? What if I can get my cousin involved? What if I can get my nephew, my daughter, my whatever?’” Amir told the Times. “So when those guys came back [from Clearwater], it was go, go, go. There was a significant amount of pressure to get as many staff as possible, because now they’ve come back, they’ve got all the training, they know all of the policy, it’s been drilled for three years.”
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Scientology targeting vulnerable children for staff, UK media investigation finds
This morning the Times of London revealed that one of its reporters had spent months at Scientology’s Edinburgh “org” in an undercover investigation.
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