{"id":2000,"date":"2011-11-28T22:41:43","date_gmt":"2011-11-29T02:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddempire.org\/weblog\/?p=2000"},"modified":"2011-11-28T22:44:44","modified_gmt":"2011-11-29T02:44:44","slug":"scientology-held-woman-aboard-the-freewinds-for-12-years-against-her-will","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/2011\/11\/28\/scientology-held-woman-aboard-the-freewinds-for-12-years-against-her-will\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientology Held Woman Aboard the Freewinds for 12 Years Against Her Will"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XWJlEWWLvLM\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Australian journalist Steve Cannane of the ABC program\u00a0<em>Lateline<\/em>\u00a0e-mailed us early this morning with this stunning new report which aired only a few hours ago in that country.<\/p>\n<p>Valeska Paris tells Cannane that she joined Scientology&#8217;s hardcore Sea Organization &#8212; signing its standard billion-year contract &#8212; at only 14 years of age. Three years later, after<a href=\"http:\/\/www.xenu.net\/archive\/photoalbum\/jaquier.html\" target=\"_blank\">her stepfather committed suicide<\/a>\u00a0and her mother denounced Scientology on French television, Paris was ordered to &#8220;disconnect&#8221; from her family. She says that church leader<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.villagevoice.com\/runninscared\/2011\/09\/david_miscavige_top_25_crippling_scientology.php\" target=\"_blank\">David Miscavige<\/a>\u00a0then enforced that disconnection by having her put on the cruise ship, the\u00a0<em>Freewinds<\/em>, that sails the Caribbean and caters to high-level church members.<\/p>\n<p>Paris was told she&#8217;d be on the ship for two weeks. Instead, she says she was held there against her will for 12 years.<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"more\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the first six years, she tells Cannane, she couldn&#8217;t leave the ship without an escort. When he asks her if she tried to leave, she answers, &#8220;I&#8217;d been in Scientology my whole life. It&#8217;s not like I knew how to escape.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Another former Sea Org member, Ramana Dienes-Browning, backed up Paris&#8217;s claims, but ABC got denials from Scientology, which says that each of them is lying.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.villagevoice.com\/runninscared\/2011\/11\/valeska_paris_scientology_freewinds.php\" target=\"_blank\">[[[MORE]]]<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.villagevoice.com\/runninscared\/2011\/11\/valeska_paris_scientology_freewinds.php\">http:\/\/blogs.villagevoice.com\/runninscared\/2011\/11\/valeska_paris_scientology_freewinds.php<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Australian journalist Steve Cannane of the ABC program\u00a0Lateline\u00a0e-mailed us early this morning with this stunning new report which aired only a few hours ago in that country. Valeska Paris tells Cannane that she joined Scientology&#8217;s hardcore Sea Organization &#8212; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/2011\/11\/28\/scientology-held-woman-aboard-the-freewinds-for-12-years-against-her-will\/\">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-2000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000","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=2000"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2004,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000\/revisions\/2004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}