IT sounds like a scene from a Hollywood horror film - a terrified 12-year-old girl locked up and surviving on just scraps of food in the rusty, dark, damp hull of a ship.
Danielle Chamberlin recalls the chapter of her life spent serving on Scientology's ship Apollo when she was a young girl after boarding in 1973“I had no idea what was waiting for me aboard that ship, but it was nothing short of child abuse”, recalls retired Danielle, now 63.I was a child bride at 15 & forced to marry 30-year-old man by my own dadIt was in September 1973 when wide-eyed Danielle was first thrown into the religion.
Arriving at the port, Danielle recalls LRH stood on deck before she was shown to a damp, dark dormitory which she shared with four older women.“I was a ‘Snipes Steward', serving meals to the engineers and cleaning.'A guy ripped my top off'Danielle was later transferred to L. Ron Hubbard’s direct command and trained to be a ‘Commodore’s Messenger’ - his personal assistant.“He didn’t physically abuse me, but I feared him.
“My periods had started and I was angry about the lack of sanitary products on the ship, so I shredded all of the reports.”Danielle was immediately locked up in the ship’s hull for three days - which haunts her to this day. “I don’t remember my mother being pleased to see me. Showing emotions was never encouraged in Scientology families,” she says.Scientology became a recognised religion in the UK in 2013, after its creation in America in 1954 by the now-deceased science-fiction author L. Ron Hubbard.Miscavige - often described as a 'powerful, ruthless character' was best man at Tom Cruise's Italian wedding to actress Katie Holmes in 2006.
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