Seems like everyone seems to be disappearing to keep away from lawsuits lately…
In case you didn’t hear, it was reported on Wednesday rapper Kanye West is outwardly hiding from his former enterprise supervisor to keep away from a multi-million greenback lawsuit for not paying his wage. And now it’s being reported Church of Scientology chief David Miscavige is doing the identical?!
According to the Tampa Bay Times on Thursday, course of servers have been attempting to current authorized paperwork to the 62-year-old for months now, however have been unsuccessful of their makes an attempt — as a result of he’s “nowhere to be found”.
The lawsuit in query is alleging federal youngster trafficking, naming Miscavige because the defendant. Per the report, brokers have tried 27 instances in California and Florida over a interval of 4 months, however nobody can discover him. When attorneys confirmed as much as a number of Church of Scientology buildings in quest of the chief, the safety guards stored their lips zipped on his whereabouts. In truth, they went so far as to say they didn’t know the place he was, the place he lived, or what he did for work. Their chief?!? Come on, now. They don’t know what he does for work once they’re employed by him?
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It’s gotten to some extent the place attorneys have even tried reaching out to the church’s official Instagram web page! Yeah, think about getting a lawsuit served to you in your DMs. Wild.
The particulars of the case Miscavige is operating from contain former Scientology members Valeska Paris and spouses Gawain and Laura Baxter. Paris filed the lawsuit after claiming the three of them have been pressured into labor on boats as kids after signing a one billion-year contract in alternate for little or no cash.
A one-billion 12 months contract?! Horrifying…
She additionally alleges she was the sufferer of repeated sexual assaults. She says when her mom left the church, she was locked in an engine room for 48 hours as punishment at solely 17 years outdated. Gawain stated his mother and father put him in a “Sea Org” (an extremist wing of Scientology) nursery when he was two months outdated, and when he turned six he was additionally pressured to signal the outrageous one-billion 12 months contract. He was then despatched to reside in a “Cadet Org” dormitory with round 100 different kids.
According to the lawsuit, kids in Scientology over six years outdated are thought-about to be adults and are advised they need to act and anticipate to be handled as adults. Allegedly, kids have to be known as “cadets” and never children.
Miscavige is due in court docket on January 20, however the assembly is pending till he’s discovered and served with the papers. A non-public investigator has been employed to assist on the hunt, however thus far there’s no clues as to the place he could also be.
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