After weeks of sitting on the story, presumably waiting for counter-comment from the cult of Scientology, ABC is finally airing their interview with Jenna Miscavige Hill of Ex Scientology Kids tonight.

Jenna first broke her silence about her own Disconnection from her uncle, David Miscavige, this past January in response to a statement by one of the cult’s attack poodles, Karin Pouw. In an open letter to Karin, Jenna responded to Karin’s claims that the church seeks to strengthen family bonds:

As you well know, my parents officially left the Church when I was 16 in 2000. I, having been separated from them at the age of 12 and thoroughly engulfed in the beliefs of the Church since birth decided not to go with them.

Not only was I not allowed to speak to them, I was not allowed to answer a phone for well over a year, in case it was them calling me. To give exact specifics, this “law” was enforced ruthlessly by one Tracye Danilovoch — the local representative for the Religious Technology Center — who intercepted all letters from my parents (and my friends). She would then pass them on to Marc Rathbun (the then 2nd in command of the Church) and Mike Rinder — who happens to be the former head of YOUR office — “The Office of Special Affairs”…

I was allowed to visit my parents from the age of 16-22, once a year for a maximum of 3-4 days, but that was only after they (my parents) threatened legal action if the Church got in the way of this and even then only after I underwent a “Security Check Confessional” before I saw them and immediately after I came back. A security check is interrogation (usually about if I intend on leaving the Church, or finding out if my parents have said anything bad about the Church, etc.) while being attached to an e-meter which is similar to a lie detector. This happened every single time I saw then (which was never more than 3 or 4 days a year).

For a more recent example of families being destroyed, my Aunt Jennifer Pantermeuhl has recently contacted my parents and let them know that she can no longer speak to them or be in contact with them because they speak to and live near, my other Aunt Sarah Mortland. Sarah is my mom’s and Jennifer’s sister. This is because Sarah is not in favor with the Church. Jennifer also contacted my brother Sterling as well as the rest of the family for the same reason most of whom had to lie to her and said they weren’t talking to Sarah for fear of getting found out about.

Another good example would be when my other brother, Justin, was in Florida a few years ago and was on his way to visit our Aunt Denise Gentile (our father’s sister and David Miscavige’s twin) with his girlfriend. Denise abruptly cancelled while they were on their way over because the Church would not approve — because he was an ex-member. Not to mention the fact that Kirsten Caetano (a member of the Church’s Office of Special Affairs — the very same organization you belong to) was contacting Justin several times when he was in Florida working, telling him that he needed to leave the state because he is an ex-member and his presence at the “Mecca of scientology” was disturbing to the church. Kristen has admitted to my face that she did this when I confronted her and even went so far as to admit that she lied to my brother after denying the incident. This is the least of what Kirsten Caetano has done!

You cite this quote from L. Ron Hubbard about what the Church believes with regards to families….. yes we know what the Church claims to “believe” and has written in its policies! — BUT do they practice that? Absolutely not!…

If I am in fact wrong and you want to prove me as such, then allow me and my family to be in contact with our family members that are still part of the Church such as my Grandpa, Ron Miscavige, and his wife, Becky. Allow the same of my friends. And don’t even start with the, “it’s their choice all along story…” — nobody is going to buy that, there are way too many destroyed families for that to be true….

I will suggest however that maybe you should spend the manpower and time of drafting your masterpiece rebuttal — why don’t you take the high road for once and put that time towards repairing the families you have destroyed, starting with the family of David Miscavige himself — hell, if Scientology can’t keep his family together — then why on earth should anyone believe the Church helps bring families together!

Completely fed up with the bullshit, Jenna started ExScientologyKids.com with Kendra Wiseman (daughter of CCHR’s Bruce Wiseman) and Astra Woodcraft (Ex Sea Org) shortly after this letter. The site obtained the attention of ABC News, who interviewed her for Nightline in late March… and that brings us to tonight.

Check your local listings.

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