The Cadet Org is a former division of the Church of Scientology for the children of Sea Org (SO), an internal Scientology group made up of the most dedicated members of the organization. It was operated for about thirty years between the early 1970s and early 2000s in a number of locations in the United States, Britain and Australia. Some facilities reportedly accommodate as many as 400 children aged between several months and sixteen years.
Children in Org Cadets are divided into two or three different categories that reflect their age and level of proficiency in Scientology. They are usually placed in dormitories under the supervision of a small number of adults. Conditions at the Org Cadet facilities are reported to be often dirty and unsafe, resulting in at least two prosecutions by public authorities. Children are given only rare contact with their parents and are reported to have little time off or playing time.
The Cadet Org is said to have very shortage of resources, leading to lack of basic provisions such as toilet paper, food and clothing in various places and times. The Church of Scientology itself reports that the Cadet Order is often treated as a dumping place for adult staff who have failed elsewhere in the Org Sea, leading to unworthy people, including pedophiles, who work at the Org Cadet facility. Internal church documents and former members' accounts have highlighted recurring issues with children's physical and sexual abuse in Org Cadet.
Like the Adult Org Sea, Org Cadet runs on a quasi-military line with a strict daily routine, timed to minutes, lasting from at least 6.30am to 9.30pm. Children are given a post and are given the responsibility to manage various aspects of their facilities, including discipline. They were asked to do hard physical work, sometimes without protective equipment and at a very young age.
The Cadet Org was finally disbanded around the beginning of the 21st century after Sea Org members were banned from having children, as they were considered a huge burden. This is reportedly causing many female Org Sea members to have abortions to avoid punishment by the Church for violating the ban.
Video Cadet Org
Origins and policies
The Cadet Org is defined by the founder of Scientology L. Ron Hubbard as
manned by children who have actual posts... Unless they register SO members, children are used in the kitchen or EPF plantation [Force Project Forces] only. There must be a nursery. There must be a QM [Quartermasters] assigned as acceptance. There should be stable personnel - and only if this has the status of an org. You want a place where you can have baby care units, dormitories, kitchens and moderate space for orc tables, audit functions and Qual [ifications]. Why should they be miserable and beaten when they can have their own people and be respected and demand respect from their parents as well, and feel proud of themselves.
Hubbard's attitude toward children is treating them like what he calls "assets". In 1972 he wrote:
In American society there is a degradable humiliation for children. Adults think of them as "sweet little boys, God, shit, them."
This attitude is not allowed in Sea Org.
YOUNG PEOPLE FROM A COMMUNITY IS AN ASSET AND SHOULD BE CONDUCTED AND CONTINUOUS BUY AS A VALUABLE FORM. THEY DECIDE TO COMPOSE A SEA AND BE A PART OF THE TEAM SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO DO THE BEST.
He told Scientologists in 1973:
It is not practical at this time to try to run a self-supporting school. Under the title of the resource, then, any magnificent scheme will fail. The financial reason is that we do the only effective work on the ground, but psychiatrists and psychologists who have no results drag all billions. Therefore, we must provide our resources to apply them to short-term expansion, defense, and, of course, take over the field and its appropriateness. Instead the children will have a role in this and the resources. The Industrial Age views a child as a non-resource and so does anyone in SO who deepens the culture from which they originate. They are destructive sentimental and think too cold-blooded to view children as a resource.
In the doctrine of Scientology, children are considered "adults in small bodies". According to L. Ron Hubbard, their bodies are ancient or immortal thetans houses or spirits capable of carrying out the same responsibilities as adults. Because their spirits are considered youthful, their status as children is irrelevant. Scientists working as staff members believe that their most important goal is to save the world and everything else is secondary. Vicki Aznaran, a former church official, explains: "Scientology is the first, and the others are out of place, and parents who want to spend time with their children are looked down upon, it's socially unacceptable."
During the late 1960s, when Hubbard founded Sea Org to accompany him aboard the Apollo , Athens , Diana and Excalibur i>, caring for children presents a significant problem for members of the Sea Org. A "Governess" post was established in 1968 to look after the children of Sea Org. The difficulty of caring for children on board is hinted at by Hubbard's instruction that if a child is "found in Hold 1 or the hidden compartment of their ship must be locked."
In the early 1970s, Sea Org members were on the ground and new arrangements were needed. In 1972, the newly formed Org Cadet was divided into three subgroups: Cadets, who were members of the Sea Org in the payroll with their own posts; children, aged 6 years and over, who are not on the payroll, and infants or young children under the age of 6. Children and Cadets were allowed to attend public schools or public schools in their area, but had to do Scientology studies in the evenings to "handle confusion" caused by what they had discussed in school. Sea Org parents were allowed to form the Parent Committee to outperform the living conditions and educate the Org of the Sea children. However, parental contact with their children is restricted; communication "to a child or about a child" asked to go through the Cadet Commander Officer "who can change or cut him off if it is not active [program]."
The offending children will be punished "by placing the child in [Rehabilitation Project Force] under strict limits". RPF is a program for Org Sea members who are considered to have violated expectations or policies, and are characterized by critics as a program of forced labor and re-indoctrination. The version for children was founded on the orders of L. Ron Hubbard. It seems to have fallen into a temporary postponement, but in 1989 by staff member Org Cadet recommended reinstitution. The author writes that he has "several Cadets and flies the escaped cadets to the children's RPF... A very small percentage is a repetitive resource and sabotages attempts to set the right scene They must move from the line per Force In an Ideal Scene. "A particular boy, who was named in the document, was recommended to" be moved from everyone's line and put into the Children's RPF. [He] recently took a razor blade and cut X on his skin up and down both arms He is pychotic [sic] in PT [at present] and requires strict supervision. "
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Life on Org Cadet
California
Los Angeles
Sea Org children living in Los Angeles, California, live in a number of facilities including a building on Fountain Avenue, the other on Melrose Avenue and two three-story buildings at 811 Beacon Street. One of them, Tonja Burden, spent three months at Beacon Street in 1973 at the age of 13. He later testified that at the facility, which housed 400 children,
[m] the task is to care for, clean and feed the children. Myself and another girl my age are the two oldest children in the Cadet Organization. Living conditions are slovenly. Glass from broken windows lay on the floor. The live power cord is exposed in areas where small children play. We received little food. On some occasions, spoiled milk with maggots is served to the children. Maggots are removed by hand before milk is served. Besides taking care of the children, I clean the toilet every day. I wrote to L. Ron Hubbard explain his condition, but nothing is fixed. Children are not allowed to live with their parents. Scientology allows one visit every week, and only for 45 minutes during mealtimes.
With the Church's own admission, the Fountain Avenue facility is illegal, for violating local child safety regulations. This violates some building codes - it's not the right kind of construction for group care of children, toddlers are treated on the first floor, and children's rooms do not all have exit doors directly outside the building. The crime was discovered by the governments of Los Angeles County and the State after the outbreak of hepatitis in February 1979. The Church was told it would be invaded by California state agents. This gives time to move the children to additional buildings that are hastily made to confirm with legal requirements. At the time of the attack, a church official reported, "there is nothing they can do to us."
One nanny, Sheila Huber, said that at the age of sixteen she was assigned to care for about thirty children under the age of three, all housed in a one-bedroom apartment: "I can not believe it. There are just under 30 children and they are under my only care I have no training. "Perhaps not surprisingly, children have a very limited life, according to Huber. He then remembers:
They never came out. Actually, they go out once - in eight months, they go out once. And that... takes three months to get that deal.... We bring them into the van, the kids, and take them to the park and they spend so much time in their boxes, day by day, night after night, that they will not go into a larger room than the size of the box them. They are scared. They are afraid of the sun.
PAC Ranch
Some Scientologists who work at the Church's Pacific Command Area (PAC) headquarters in Los Angeles are stationed at Canyon Oaks Ranch near Santa Clarita, California, northwest of the city. According to former Scientologists Saina Kamula and Mirriam Francis, who lived at PAC Ranch in the mid-1990s, it is a "military-esque" facility that operates "like Lord of the Flies". Francis described it as "a bunch of trailers dropped on several acres in the desert area of ​​SoCal and that's where we learn more Scientology and work and live amongst each other." Kamula and Francis say that children are punished by being forced to lunch in the back of a maggot-filled trash can. Similar to other Ork Cadet facilities, children living at PAC Ranch are made to do hard physical work including destroying the possibility of asbestos-covered walls or laying bricks on L. Ron Hubbard Way in Los Angeles. Kamula said that she was made to work for 60 hours a week as an underage juvenile and suffered severe stress as a result, which caused her to be placed at the suicide hour on several occasions. This facility was closed in 2007.
Int Ranch
In the 1990s, children of Org Sea members working at Scientology's Gold Base in California were housed at a facility called "Int [ernational] Ranch". It is located on a land of five hundred acres in San Jacinto Hills in Riverside County, adjacent to Indian Soboba Reservation about 20 miles from Gold Base. A group of buildings called Motels occupies the center of the site, with six or seven other buildings scattered around it. When Jenna Miscavige Hill was sent there at the age of six in March 1990, she was one of fifteen other children from Scientology senior executives living at the site - a figure that eventually grew to around 80.
The site is dilapidated, overgrown and at risk of fire, so children are employed to renovate it. Although electrical and plumbing work is done by adults, almost all other renovation work is done by children. Children are divided into three groups: Children, Presetet, and Cadet. Groupings are determined by the age and how advanced they are in their Scientology training. The youngest, Children, generally under the age of six, Precadets are seven to nine and Cadets are nine to sixteen. It is possible for very advanced young people to become Cadets, or for older children who are behind with their studies to remain a Precursor. It is also possible for children to be relegated to the lower group as punishment.
Then in 1990 an increasingly rigorous regime was enacted in which children's activities were scheduled down to the minute. It becomes more like a military training camp where children are made to do what Miscavige Hill has to say as "an exhausting, endless exercise, profound inspection, and difficult physical work that children should not have done." Strict punishment systems and internal controls are applied to keep children aligned. Each offense resulted in the issuance of an indictment, a kind of written humiliation, which continues to be recorded. Children are instructed to report on their respective activities and speak out if they see a violation, otherwise they will be considered as accessory to the offense and will receive the same punishment as the offender. This, says Miscavige Hill, "makes it difficult for anyone to trust others".
Life for a Cadet or Precadet follows a set, and a long daily routine, supervised by the children themselves in accordance with instructions of L. Ron Hubbard. They wore a uniform consisting of khaki shorts with red shirts or polo shirts with a Sea Org emblem on it. They also have sweat pants, trousers, and vests but are not allowed to wear their own clothes, except for pajamas.
They were awakened at 6:30 am and given half an hour to perform the cleaning task. At 7 am they were formed into seven different Divisions, each under Division Head, to gather in the morning in front of the Cadet Officer Commander - fellow Cadet. The boys stood up to pay respectfully to the Division Head while Master-at-Arms, another child, read a military-style report about the status of each Division. Uniforms are checked and personal hygiene of each child is examined, with tested breath and underarm odors and their hair checked for lice.
Penalties are imposed due to delays or failure of inspection. Late delays are punished, ranging from being issued with a crap to having a bucket of ice water poured over the principal's head. Failed anchored inspection will result in at least in receiving chit. An offender could have been ordered to clean the room with white (clean it so well that people wearing white gloves can hold their hands on the surface without making it dirty) or extreme orders to sleep all night at Pig's Berthing, an old mattress in a shabby building filled with rats and bats on site. Zoe Woodcraft, who was there at the same time as Miscavige Hill, wrote that he remembers "two nine-year-old girls forced to spend the night there and in the middle of the night they ran screaming and crying from the building.one of the girls later told me that they had been frightened by bats and could not take it anymore. "
After the morning apple, the Scientology training period was followed by work at the post assigned by the children. Miscavige Hill was made a gardener at the age of six, responsible for the maintenance and maintenance of some land, involving physical labor. A few months later, when he was seven years old, he was made a Medical Liaison Officer - who acts as an on-site doctor - with responsibility for identifying and treating any medical conditions reported by children. She is also responsible for sharing vitamins and formulas as determined by Hubbard, which every child has to swallow every day. No matter how sick a child is, no drugs are allowed other than antibiotics, but visits from a real doctor are rare. At all times when Miscavige Hill was at Int Ranch, she did not go to a doctor even though she suffered several illnesses.
Breakfast lasts between 8.30 and 9am. A "table captain" is assigned to each table to supervise the delivery of food. This was followed by fifteen minutes for the children to clean the dishes and the dining room, and then collect the two. Between 9:15 and 12:45, Monday to Friday, and all day Saturday, the children go to the deck or labor-intensive projects. Official deck time lasts 25 hours per week but more realistic work lasts at least 35 hours per week for all Presetet and Cadet, from the age of six and up. They are divided into labor units assigned to specific projects, many involving hard physical work. There are some minor jobs such as washing clothes or cleaning pools, but children are also responsible for transporting stones, weeding, planting trees, digging irrigation ditches, making landscaping on site and renovating buildings. On Saturdays, the children have to do intensive cleaning of their place and the buildings. Adults at Int Ranch issue a project order and check the results to make sure they are satisfactory, but rarely intervene to help the children. The work takes place in all weather, from rain and hail to temperatures above 100 ° F (30 ° C), with only an occasional five minute break allowed. There is no protective equipment and children often have to wear inappropriate clothing, such as shorts in the winter, because there is no funding for new clothes.
Scientology puts forward a number of justifications for getting children to do such work. They are told that work is an exchange for being able to live on a farm, looking for a way to get things for free, which is something the criminals only seek. The hard work is said to be a way to train children to take pride in their work, face difficult situations and deal with MEST (the physical world), which will make them better. If their work or behavior is repeatedly considered unsatisfactory, they will be sent to HMU, the MEST Unit of Work Weight, where they will be required to perform the most difficult forms of physical work such as deep trench digging. Offenders are also physically isolated from the rest of the children.
Miscavige Hill notes that "we are a group of children who spend hours each day doing the kind of physical work that children should not do." The work was exhausting physically:
We have callouses and blisters. We suffered cuts and bruises. Our hands lost their feelings as we plunged them into the cold water from the bottom of the river to the rock. As we pulled weeds from the scorched summer lands, our hands were burned by the friction and the stinging of the nettles. Conditions we do will be difficult for adult men, but there are complaints, backflashing [talking back], all kinds of direct questions are filled with disciplinary action.
The deck time ends at 12:45 pm and is followed by cleaning and lunch. An hour later at 1:45 pm, the school started on a variety of typical academic topics, which the children taught themselves using textbooks and checklists. There were no teachers but the children were even supervised by the course supervisor who tested it on the E-meter to see if they misunderstood something. This continues until 6 pm, with a fifteen minute break and a snack. Dinner and other cleaning took place from 6 am to 6:45 pm, followed by Scientology training until 9 pm.
Finally, the children were asked to fill in Student Point Slips, a kind of progress report for the day, where various activities were rated points to be completed. This is used for "management by statistics" system implemented by Hubbard in Scientology: points tabulated and tagged on charts, which should show trends on a daily basis. Each day ends with a period of praise for L. Ron Hubbard, whose portrait is on display in the walls of the classroom. The kids will face his picture, sing "Hip! Hip! Hooray", and clap for a few minutes. After a short time to get ready for bed, the lights came in at 9:30 sharp, ending one day thirteen hours.
Children do not have free time or play, but there are three breaks for a weeklong routine. On Thursday afternoons, children are required to spend two hours to calculate their daily statistics to determine their status according to the Scientology ethical concept. Depending on the results of the graph, children should take special steps to improve or maintain their statistics. If the downtrend, potential negative consequences will follow, such as having the privilege of being revoked or given only rice and beans to eat. Children are also given weekly E-meter checks to determine whether they conceal secrets or violations, and must write weekly reports to their parents. On Friday evening a graduation ceremony was held for the completion of the course and a presentation of Scientology media was shown, followed by the disbursement of a five-dollar weekly allowance.
Contact with parents is very limited. Jenna Miscavige Hill's father visited once a week for twenty minutes during the lunch break, and it was not unusual to be one of only a few older people to do it. At 10 pm on Saturday night, she was allowed to go to her parents' apartment to stay with them overnight. She was also given two or three days off during Christmas. Letters to and from parents are monitored to ensure that nothing negative is said. Each complaint will be treated as "cheating" and punished. Weekly phone calls are also allowed. The children were sometimes left out for special events, when Miscavige Hill said they "dressed up in funny clothes in front of our Int and Int parents to make it look as if Scientology creates a normal, fun childhood, in fact, we are all robbed. "Zoe Woodcraft, on the other hand, spent more than a year there, but, he said," we never go to town to travel, never go to the movies, shopping or anything. isolated The only time I ever left was when I was allowed to take time off to visit my dad at Christmas. "
In the absence of parental support, Miscavige Hill wrote,
[W] e are practically parents to each other, keeping each other safe when we are sick, comforting each other when we can not sleep, disciplining each other as we behave, feeding each other as we get hungry and mutual help. with schoolwork when we were confused. Yes, we are responsible for postal work, deck work, academic work, work and cleaning of Scientology courses - but, more than anything else, we are responsible for each other.
Apollo Training College
Several children were sent to the Apollo Training College (ATA), located on Fountain Street opposite Scientology publishing office Bridge Publications. Mike Rinder, a former high-ranking official of Scientology, described it as "a cinder block building, with a two-wide trailer in front, a six-foot fence around it with a peak above it so that outsiders can not see". Originally run by a Scientology entity called the Cadet Urban Organization, which was later separated from Org Cadet. Woodcraft was sent there after returning from living in New York in 1992, when he was nine years old, because there was no room for children on the farm. He then wrote that the conditions there were the worst he had ever encountered as a child:
[T] he pool was covered with plywood and we were instructed not to walk on it, because it was fragile and unsafe. The kids played there because we were often unattended. The carpet was old and smelly and there were a lot of cockroaches. We slept in a metal bunk bed with chipping paint. No proper bed; neither of us had a complete set of blankets, blankets and pillows. I slept without a pillow for months.
All the furniture was very old and old. For the light, we had an empty light hanging on the ceiling. The kitchens have also been tampered with to make more room for people so there are pipes open everywhere... The building is in an insecure area of ​​Los Angeles and I often hear gunshots at night. It was a very scary place for me to live.
The bathroom.... also not fully functional and we often did not have warm water, the tiles in the bathroom were moldy and we did not have any soap or towels. In addition, the elevator in this four-story building never works so we always have to use the stairs.
ATA operated as a Scientology school for about two hundred children. They studied a mixture of Scientology and the mainstream curriculum consisting of works by L. Ron Hubbard plus mathematics, reading and spelling. Unlike farms, there is no strict regimentation and children can go to the beach or park on Mondays. According to Woodcraft, they "often go to the park and spend all day there, too.. They will also take us to the fifty cents pool, but many kids have no money to swim so we just sit all day. money to the teacher, he said no and told us it was too bad for us, we have no money. "
Although the location does not allow for the kind of outdoor hard work done on the farm, the kids keep working on cleaning the buildings. Woodcraft was reminded of being assigned to an activity they call "picking chickens" on the carpet. He writes:
Since we did not have a vacuum cleaner, our children were ordered to kneel down and take the dirt off the carpet. These impurities include paint chips and we are expected to leave our parts in perfect condition. This is very difficult to do, especially in the small space between the carpet and the wall. There will be all sorts of little trash there including paints and staples that hurt my fingers.
There is also a problem with the staff at ATA. Saina Kamula, a former member of the Sea Org, said that an older staff member at ATA repeatedly committed sexual harassment during her stay there in the 1990s. When he reported the abuse to a teacher, he said he was convicted of "counter-intent" - acting against the interests of Scientology. The perpetrator is never punished and remains an "active and respected member of the Church" in August 2017.
Florida
During the 1990s, the Org Cadet facility operated near "Mecca" Scientology, the city of Clearwater, Florida. It is located at the former Quality Inn, which the Scientologists call QI, at 16432 US Highway 19 in Largo, Florida. The entire five-person Woodcraft family was initially stationed there in 1986 in a "very small, about 12 'hour 20' single room, one room and one bathroom, very shabby, full of cockroaches and fungi. we are in this room so it is very narrow and almost unworkable. "He returned to QI for a while in 1993 and then to stay longer from 1994 to 2000, living in a Cadet Org dormitory inside the building. When the 12-year-old Scientology cadet Kristi Erlich flew from Los Angeles to visit her 13-year-old brother Beth in QI, her first reaction to her room scene was one of horror: "Oh my God, I can not" "I do not even believe Beth lives in a place like that.. There are insects everywhere... We're always afraid of insects on our feet and our faces and stuff while we're sleeping. "
After escaping from Scientology in late 2000, Woodcraft wrote a detailed report on life in QI. He describes it as "whole sad and gloomy," and Cadets and Presetets are guarded "always on a boring and tight schedule." The Precadets were never allowed to leave the premises, rarely went out and could only play in the parking lot. Woodcraft works every afternoon and all day on Sundays, designated as a "reno" (renovation) day where children work to repair and refurbish the building. Saturday afternoons can also be designated as "renos", after the parent's visit the previous day. At one "reno" task, he was told to destroy the wall of a room in QI:
This is a strange room that has plywood mounted in two layers on all walls. We ripped plywood off the wall. When I asked the cadet coordinator what this room was he told me that it was an "ethical particle" that became annoyed or hysterical. He will put them (children) in this room and lock them up. Some of them have become very annoyed as they kick the hole in the original wall because they are just drywall, so he has put up a wall with plywood so no one can kick through.
On Saturday nights the children can watch a movie, chosen by the caretaker. Woodcraft recalls that for the time being, the caregiver "fell in love with the so-called" White Knight "movement and we had to watch the movie again and again for weeks.This is not a kid's movie and it's so boring."
Sensor strictly applied to listen and read children's material. Woodcraft writes:
Our rooms were ransacked for offensive materials and if something unapproved was found, it was confiscated. For example the recording of Alanis Morrisette was taken because he was "downtone" and "too much upset." Archie Magazines are considered "too sexually oriented" and this is prohibited. Seventeen Magazine is also not allowed, nor is there a fashion magazine for "middle-class orientation" and sexual content.
Woodcraft got the ranks and took on various jobs, "one of which was making sure all the pictures of Ron Hubbard looked good, so I always cleaned cockroach droppings from frames and cardboard boards." In another post, as Area Secretary of Hubbard Communications Office (HAS) and Director of Inspection and Reports, he manages the discipline affair: "I must read" write up bright "from other cadets This will include reports written about masturbation and other sexual activity between I also participate in ethics courts and evidence committees for children.This is a disciplinary action per church policy. "
When he was eleven, he was promoted to Cadet rank. This enabled him to move to better accommodation in the building and he was given more freedom of movement. If their statistics are in up trend they are allowed to go bowling (always in pairs; they are never allowed to go alone) and if they are given the "Cadet of the Week" status they are given ice cream.
He moved to the Cadet Technical Training Corps at the age of twelve or thirteen, studying L. Ron Hubbard's work for eleven hours a day from Monday to Saturday. Conventional schools are limited to ten hours on Sundays. There is little free time and no holidays other than "Scientology" holidays from the Day of the Ocean Day, plus Christmas Day. On one occasion he was allowed to go on a two-week trip. He left the Cadet Order when he was fourteen years old to join Sea Org, and escaped from Scientology two years later.
The QI facility became the attention of Pinellas County police, who visited him. According to the county Sheriff, Greg Tita, the police "determined that there were signs of child abandonment and abuse, they wrote the report and the case was forwarded to the youth office, but Scientology filed a complaint against the publication of the report in press and won. I do not think that has anything to do with the dispute over the investigation, they just want to make sure no information gets to the public. "According to Tita, the runaway cadet was sent by the church to a" prison children's camp ", Rehabilitation Project Force.
English
The Cadet Org facility is in Stonelands, a mansion located in the south of England's West Sussex near the village of West Hoathly. It accommodates the children of Sea Org members who work at Scientology's English headquarters at a few miles away at Saint Hill Manor in East Sussex. Claire Headley was four years old when she was placed there as one of about forty children of Scientology, with an adult female Scientology who looked after everything. His mother, a single parent, worked at Saint Hill Manor but was given little time to interact with his daughter: an hour a day at dinner and three hours on Saturday. Children are allowed to join the church's permanent staff at the age of eight, but there is no provision for schooling at the facility. Headley then recalled:
We have no parents. So instead we were raised by checklists and statistics. I am responsible for eight children around me. I have to make sure they follow their checklist - making beds, taking baths, brushing, eating, going to school, doing manual work assignments assigned to us, learning Scientology. We are assigned statistics driven by how many checklists we completed.
There was a time when I was 7 years old when my mother was sent to the RPF, Rehabilitation Project Force, to have sex with her boyfriend at the time. Why is this easy to remember? Because I was told that this assignment meant I was not allowed to talk to him, and I was assigned to a "adoptive" family who would "watch" me during the time in the program.
Headley said that, like cadets at a number of other Ork Cadet facilities, he experienced various forms of abuse: "My experience has never been extreme." Physical and verbal abuse, sexual abuse, torture and extreme neglect are very common experiences for cadets. to share my experience, because I hate the idea of ​​being considered a science project.At 7 years old, an older male staff member tried to lure my friend and me into his office to persecute us, go with him and urge my friend not to go with him. I chose to go and he did it.It has never been reported to the police. "Another former Org Cad Org member, Melissa Paris, said that the Sea Org administrators regularly beat children, who also disagree with each other. On one occasion, he wrote, he was thrown down the stairs by one caretaker, which caused rare intervention from his father.
Paris lives in Stonelands between the ages of four and twelve. He remembered that the day started around 7 am, when "we were going to get together - we would all stand in line, according to division, then we had to have breakfast on time, because if you missed it you did not eat, then some would go to Saint Hill and do their jobs.The others will live in the Stonelands and have to clean the house.There is not much free time, maybe an hour or two.When I was young there was something called Family Time, an hour or two at night when you saw parents You ". Family Time was removed when he was about six or seven, which meant that he no longer saw his father during the day.
According to Paris, the house was in a state of disrepair and he experienced a bleak condition. His sister Valeska, who is also at Stonelands, said that "we do not have toilet paper 90 percent of the time at Ork Cadet We also have to use pages from books in the library to wipe ourselves or our hands and wipe the walls. disgusting, but it's true.The toilet is on the wall. "Not surprisingly, personal hygiene suffered:" We are children of Stonelands. Dirty. We have lice. "
The conditions in the Stonelands were still a decade later. In 1993, the Mid-Sussex Council sentenced the Church of Scientology to a breach of fire safety regulations after another Scientology property in the area was burned. Although the Church has stated that 50 people live there, the examination of the internal Scientology document records over 190 inhabitants. At least 24 children living in a dormitory that a Scientology official noted, "The smell of wet beds and bleach... the smell of wet beds needs to be addressed."
Mexico
In 1982, former Scientologist Scott Mayer testified in a public trial in Clearwater, Florida that he has been responsible for maintaining the Org Cadet facility in Mexico for children of Scientologists based in Los Angeles. They are stored there rather than in the United States as it is said to be cheaper. According to Mayer, "Children are routinely transported from Los Angeles to Mexican bases and tethered and placed there... so their mothers and fathers can continue their business within the Church." However, the Mexican base was unsafe: it was invaded at night by the thieves who would come and steal items from the property. Mayer was ordered to buy a rifle with an infrared sniper scope to deal with thieves. However, it is not necessary because the woman who runs the base shoots one of the bandits and prevents them from returning.
The physical condition at the base is also very dangerous. The property is covered with a thick brush, which grows up to the ranch house, and there are poisonous scorpions, snakes, and spiders in the area. No money or personnel is initially available to resolve this issue. Mayer finally settled the situation by grabbing a scorpion bottle to his boss and telling him that the death of a child would cause poor community relations for Scientology.
Australia
Sea Org members living in Australia sent children to the Org Cadet facility located in a Sydney townhouse in the 1990s. Scarlett Hanna, who lived there for several years, described it as "a very lonely childhood I have no one to talk to or to look after me or ask me how I am after school or, you know, the thing most of us take for granted. "She says that she and other children do not receive adequate food or medical care.
According to Hanna, Sea Org successfully managed to hide the living conditions of children from the city's Public Service department when the facility was examined on two occasions. He said that the furniture was dismantled and the children were sent out for the day to make it look that the facility was not too full.
Reject and fall of Org Cadet
The management of his children's members is a long-standing source of hardship for the Church of Scientology. In 1974, just a year after Hubbard announced the formation of the Cadet Order, he was prosecuted for running an illegal childcare facility and undergoing probation. Five years later, he experienced a narrow escape when authorities in Los Angeles County discovered that the church was running another illegal childcare facility at the Org Cadet House at Fountain Avenue, Los Angeles. The Church was able to escape the charges after being told that the raids were imminent and transferring the children to another legally obedient building.
Serious problems persist in Los Angeles. An "Advisory Advisor" published internally by Sea Org in August 1981 reported that in the Los Angeles-based Pacific Regional Command alone, there were 339 children between newborn and 18 years old in the PAC Sea Org organization. (In 1974 there were only 20 parents across PAC Sea Org.) The way they were managed led to many problems. A minute is noted that they are behind their classroom level in the public school system and there are many reports of unethical and criminal behavior by Sea Org children, including theft and wrong sexual behavior. It states: "Due to the recent dirty conditions of the [Cadet Association Society] and the criminal behavior of the children of the area has become a threat of homework and the Law for the Church... the scene is wild outside the tracks and the scene becomes heavily degraded.PAC SO children are not a valuable asset of personnel in many cases being criminals. "
A series of "missions" by Scientology management during the 1970s sought to resolve these problems but failed, which the Order of 1981 dated was associated with failure to follow the orders of L. Ron Hubbard. For example, parents and adult supervisors of children cause problems "by treating them as" children "rather than SO members.This is often veiled as parents insist that their cadets go on libs [spend time] with them even though cadet statistics are down and he did not get the libs, which resulted in a decrease from the cadet post ". The order suggests that parents should be "re-educated" to regard their children as "real SO resources and members." This commented that "because the destructive cultural pattern in dealing with children is deeply ingrained in the US, this should be disarmed as false data" and concludes that parents "do not view children as a [Present Time] resource that is worth investing much of the time or effort. "
Further problems are caused by the quality of adult personnel assigned to supervise the cadets. The Aides Order reports that the Cadet Commander Officer "is a criminal and sadistic for the other Cadets, he was expelled in mid-77 after he handcuffed another Cadet to an electrical outlet and nearly shocked him." The subsequent investigation found that Cadet Estates Organization "also has a large number of DB [Degraded Beings], criminals and perverts installed in it, some of which will slap the cadets and treat them like" children "." This is at least partly due to the fact that Sea Org has "constantly put unwanted or refused staff" to look after children. To solve this problem, the Order Aides proposed a series of reforms that would enhance the management of Org Cadet and create the Order of the Cadet Order, which guarded their facility, a completely separate entity exclusively managed by adults. Sea Org members with a history of sexual offenses should be excluded from Org Cadet and Cadet Estates Org staff.
However, problems with pedophilia and poor living conditions continued, as one minute in December 1989 from the Commander of the Plantation Cadet Commander (CO) Officer to the Commanding Officer of the Commodore Waiting Organization, the Pacific Area Command (CO CMO PAC) explained: School is a disgrace, with food that can be given to children because there is no way to keep it hot, 90% of all children below grade level, etc. " A member of the Sea Org who is a qualified teacher has been expelled from his position because of his confession that he felt a sexual urge against children. Recognition of teachers quoted in minutes:
When I became the first ten months in the care of SO [Sea Org], I would take the kids and give them a hug or sit in my lap. Sometimes when I do this, I'll get an erection... One time I was riding a horse and one of the main girls wanted to sit in my lap. I let her down and after she sat in my lap, I got an erection. I feel ashamed and move it close to my knees. The reaction changes from [sic] after a bit... One of the junior cadets I put on the bed at night I want to give him a rubbing back to help him sleep. When I do this I get an erection.
In the end, the Cadet Order was completely closed. The first step was taken in 1979 when Sea Org members in Los Angeles were banned from having children, and those with children were mostly forbidden to join Sea Org. Executive Instruction issued that states:
We have a lot of work to do on the third dynamic [save the planet] here in PAC and much to deal with and the time and work to be spent on addressing the widespread infant population in CCO [Child Care Org] can be better directed against this.
FROM NOW UNTIL THE FACILITIES AND PERSONNEL THERE ARE PERFORMANCE FOR CCO AND ORG WHICH IS REGULATED TO HANDLE BOTH SEA ORGAN CHILDREN AND EXPANSION IN THE FUTURE, THERE IS NO BABY OR PREGNANCY IN PAC. Any partner who violates this rule will be directly charged to the Board of Fitness to determine whether they are sufficient as a facility differentiator for their organization and Sea Org to ensure the cost, effort and space needed to care for their child. If the Board of Fitness finds that they do not, they will be diverted.
Everyone recruited for PAC Org who has children should be judged against SO rather than the cost and work of caring for children or children.
As the Church website states, "in 1986 it became clear that the duties of a member of the Organization of the Seas were incompatible with raising children." A whole new Sea New instruction was issued in September 1986 which prohibits Sea Org members from having children because Sea Org has no time, money or resources to care for them. Having children is considered to weaken the purpose and production of Org Sea members. If they do not comply with the Flag Order, they will be sent to a Scientology organization that is located far from the Class V level (the middle-level Scientology organization). They can return to Sea Org after an illegitimate child is six years old. However, members of Org Sea continue to have children so that the new policy was reissued and reinforced in another Flag Order on April 3, 1991. The penalty for having a child increases; the offender will now be sent to "a class of undeveloped Class IV".
Mary Tabayoyon, who is a member of the Sea Org for 21 years, wrote that this was considered a severe punishment: "In a failed IV Grade Org, a member of the exiled Org of the Seas must struggle on his own and try to raise children in nominal compensation given to Org staff Class IV failing In addition, the exiled Org Sea members will be obliged to revive the failed Org or suffer more Ethics [discipline]. "In addition, any Marine Org colleagues who know about an illegitimate child or pregnancy but do not take actions against parents will be punished. The result of the new rule is that many members of Women's Org Sea who are desperate to remain in Sea Org after pregnancy have an abortion, presumably under the pressure of disciplinary action that is threatened.
As a result of the new rules, the Cadet Order was no longer needed and dissolved in the early 2000s.
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