{"id":1691,"date":"2011-03-05T19:05:10","date_gmt":"2011-03-05T23:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddempire.org\/weblog\/?p=1691"},"modified":"2011-03-05T19:05:10","modified_gmt":"2011-03-05T23:05:10","slug":"daniel-montalvo-hits-scientology-with-stunning-child-labor-lawsuits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/2011\/03\/05\/daniel-montalvo-hits-scientology-with-stunning-child-labor-lawsuits\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniel Montalvo Hits Scientology With Stunning Child Labor Lawsuits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>?Last October we told you\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.villagevoice.com\/runninscared\/2010\/10\/daniel_montalvo.php\" target=\"_blank\">the dramatic story of young Daniel Montalvo<\/a>, a 19-year-old who had been brought up in Scientology but had made a dramatic break for freedom &#8212; only to be thrown in jail by the LA Sheriff&#8217;s Office on behalf of revenge-minded Scientologists.<\/p>\n<p>Since that time, we&#8217;ve kept in touch with Daniel and the actor\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.villagevoice.com\/2008-04-08\/news\/celebrity-denounces-scientology\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jason Beghe<\/a>, whose Malibu ranch has been Montalvo&#8217;s protective sanctuary as Scientology continued to send private eyes and process servers at him.<\/p>\n<p>Today, Daniel turns 20 years old. Yesterday, he filed two stunning lawsuits against Scientology with the help of attorney S. Christopher &#8220;Kit&#8221; Winter.<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"more\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Winter helped Montalvo avoid the grand reaching that tends to characterize lawsuits against Scientology, and instead kept his complaints laser-focused on damning charges about how children are used by the church in troubling ways.<\/p>\n<p>Specifically, Montalvo&#8217;s lawsuits paint a picture of a child who was essentially abandoned by his two Scientologist parents to the organization, was signed to a billion-year contract at only 6 years of age, and through his teens was forced to work up to 100 hours a week with only the barest schooling, and for wretched pay (about $35 a week).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.villagevoice.com\/runninscared\/2011\/03\/daniel_montalvo_1.php\" target=\"_blank\">[[[MORE]]]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>?Last October we told you\u00a0the dramatic story of young Daniel Montalvo, a 19-year-old who had been brought up in Scientology but had made a dramatic break for freedom &#8212; only to be thrown in jail by the LA Sheriff&#8217;s Office &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/2011\/03\/05\/daniel-montalvo-hits-scientology-with-stunning-child-labor-lawsuits\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","WB4WB4WP_MODE":"","WB4WP_PAGE_SCRIPTS":"","WB4WP_PAGE_STYLES":"","WB4WP_PAGE_FONTS":"","WB4WP_PAGE_HEADER":"","WB4WP_PAGE_FOOTER":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1691"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1692,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1691\/revisions\/1692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}