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Child Neglect

In Scientology, children are considered to be small adults, not dependents with special needs. Scientology policy dictates that staff members may spend no more than one hour a day with their children, and then only if they have had a productive week.

Adeline Dodd-Bova describes her time as a teacher in Scientology schools and writes of troubling cases of insufficient sleep and children having little or no food. Even more disturbing is her description of children whose sexual and physical abuse were not reported to Social Services.	California	Feb 1991	Sep 1991
Stacy Young’s sworn declaration describes children being kept in camps away from their parents	unknown	1975 - 1989	sworn declaration, March '94
The St. Petersburg Times ' story on children in Scientology describes bug-infested, crowded quarters and severely limited family time	Clearwater, FL	1983 for one case	Nov 10-11, 1991
"Miss X" quotes from a 1981 internal Scientology evaluation into the sorry state of child care within Scientology, which indicates that criminals and perverts were often put in charge of the children's organization	Los Angeles?	1981	a.r.s. Sep 17 1996
Annie Rosenblum’s declaration states that parents on the RPF were only permitted to see their children one hour a week, plus mealtimes, and then only if their "stats" were up. (1978)	Clearwater FL	1978	declaration, webbed Apr 10 1995
"Warrior" describes horrendous conditions for children at the Cadet Org	Los Angeles	1975	a.r.s. May 23 1997
Yolanda Howell says that children in the Cadet Org were kept filthy, not fed properly, and left unsupervised. She cites incidents of a 14-year-old prostituting herself, a 12-year-old declared suppressive and turned out on the street, and a herpes epidemic in the Cadet Org.	Los Angeles	unknown; probably pre-1978	web page, Nov 14 94
an anonymous person describes working in an Applied Scholastics school and says that the "Scientology kids were hungry, dirty, scabies, "pathetic", inadequate clothing, etc. HRS ((Health and Rehabilitative Services, an agency looking for neglected children)) had checked into some of the children."	Florida?	unknown	a.r.s. Jun 15 1995

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