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Leah Remini slammed the Church of Scientology in a prolonged assertion shared shortly after Danny Masterson was sentenced to 30 years to life in jail for 2 counts of forcible rape.
“Sitting in court docket at this time with the ladies who survived Danny Masterson’s predation was a surreal expertise,” Remini, 53, wrote via X (previously generally known as Twitter) on Thursday, September 7. “Over the previous seven many years, former Scientologists have sadly change into used to Scientology utilizing its monetary sources, non secular safety and relationships to grab justice away from them.”
She went on to say that the church “managed to cowl up Danny’s crimes with the assistance of its intelligence company” in addition to church officers and “its community of media-hungry unethical attorneys, personal investigators, brokers and civilian Scientologists who engaged in a conspiracy to cowl up crimes of sexual violence.”
Remini, who was current within the courtroom throughout Masterson’s sentencing on Thursday, described his conviction and sentence as “in indictments towards Scientology, its operatives and its felony chief, David Miscavige.”
“I’m relieved that this harmful rapist might be off the streets and unable to violently assault and rape girls with the assistance of Scientology, a multi-billion-dollar felony group with tax-exempt standing,” Remini continued earlier than praising the ladies who testified towards Masterson, 47.
“These girls not solely confronted the dwelling hell of being raped, having their rapes coated up by the very group that promised to guard them, however they’ve additionally confronted ruthless and felony harassment by Scientology and its brokers since they got here ahead to legislation enforcement,” Remini wrote. “The ladies who survived Danny’s predation fought tirelessly for justice. Their tenacity, power and braveness have given hope to all victims of Scientology that justice is feasible. For that, we’ll perpetually be grateful.”
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Masterson was convicted of two counts of forcible rape in Might after he was charged with assaulting a number of girls within the early 2000s. Jurors discovered him responsible of raping two girls in 2003, however they may not attain a verdict for a November 2001 allegation involving an ex-girlfriend.
Masterson’s retrial started in April after a decide declared the primary iteration a mistrial in November 2022. When the second trial began, Remini — a former Scientologist — was in attendance.
“The ladies who Danny raped deserve justice for what they’ve been put via, not solely by Danny however by Scientology which has tried to destroy them for reporting their rapes,” she tweeted on the time.
Since leaving Scientology in 2013, Remini has been an outspoken critic of the church, writing about her expertise in her 2016 memoir, Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology. She additionally coproduced and hosted the A&E docuseries Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath, which ran from 2016 to 2019 and received two Emmys.
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When requested by Us Weekly for touch upon Thursday, the Church of Scientology gave the identical assertion they supplied after Masterson’s conviction.
“The prosecution’s introduction of faith into this trial was an unprecedented violation of the First Modification and impacts the due course of rights of each American,” the church stated. “There may be not a scintilla of proof supporting the scandalous allegations that the Church harassed the accusers. Each single occasion of supposed harassment by the Church is FALSE, and has been debunked.”
