Is Scientology breaking the law?

Allegations of fraud by Scientology

Excerpted from Time Magazine , May 6 1991, quoted at http://www.scientology-lies.com/re.cgi?http://home.sol.no/~spirous/CoS/archive/time910605.html . Please see that site for the full text.

Emphasis added in red . Editorial comments, when added, are in purple .


Harriet Baker lost her home when Scientology refused to return money paid for UNUSED services

Harriet Baker learned the hard way about Scientology's business of selling religion. When Baker, 73, lost her husband to cancer, a Scientologist turned up at her Los Angeles home peddling a $1,300 auditing package to cure her grief. Some $15,000 later, the Scientologists discovered that her house was debt free. They arranged a $45,000 mortgage, which they pressured her to tap for more auditing until Baker's children helped their mother snap out of her daze. Last June, Baker demanded a $27,000 refund for unused services, prompting two cult members to show up at her door unannounced with an E-meter to interrogate her. Baker never got the money and, financially strapped, was forced to sell her house in September.

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