Ex-Scientology member recalls dark underbelly of Church
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At just 12 years old, Mirriam Francis signed a billion-year contract – a vow of eternal servitude to Scientology.
“I was born into Scientology’s most inner-core,” she told news.com.au
Raised inside the Sea Organisation – the church’s exclusive religious order, described by some as akin to a paramilitary branch – Mirriam was taught that devotion was survival and doubt was sin.
“I was expected to be a soldier of Scientology. I was told I was property and didn’t have a right to my own life and interests.”
Decades on, the psychological scars still linger – remnants of a childhood that she felt was never really hers.
When Mirriam was six, her father packed up their lives in Sydney and flew them to Los Angeles to join her mother, who was working as a high-ranked individual inside the organisation.
“I was separated from my parents,” she said.
“My mother worked for the organisation at an undisclosed location – I never knew where she was.”
“I kept telling my parents that I wanted to leave and they just kept me there,” she said.
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