When didJen B very first report her supposed rape to police?
Jen affirmed that she went to the LAPD’s Hollywood Station to submit a report in June 2004, a year after the supposed attack, describing that she hesitated to go to cops “because I was a Scientologist and Mr. Masterson is a Scientologist, and you cannot report another Scientologist in good standing to the authorities.”
( A church spokesperson has actually rejected any policy avoiding its members from reporting criminal offenses, consisting of ones possibly dedicated by fellow members.)
“My understanding was I would immediately be guilty of a high crime,” Jen continued. “A high crime comes with a penalty of expulsion from Scientology…You cannot speak or have contact or anything at all with a person who has been expelled or declared a suppressive person…That would have major ramifications.”
Asked what sort of implications, she stated, “My life would be over. My moms and dads [both Scientologists] would need to detach with me. My child [7 or 8 at the time] could not go to her school … My moms and dads would not talk with me. I would not have anywhere to work or live. I would not have anywhere to go.” Jen stated she wasn’t persuaded that her moms and dads would select her over the church if she left.
Before going to cops, Jen stated, she sent out a letter looking for authorization to Mike Ellis, the church’s International Justice Chief, and asking him for guarantee that she would not be stated. He did not allow, she remembered.
She affirmed she offered the cops pictures she taken in the days right away following her April 25, 2003, encounter with Masterson of swellings on her body, in addition to copies of understanding reports written about her and the star and a “non-interpolation order” (a paper that’s flowed within a group of individuals about things you are doing or have actually done that have “created much chaos in a group,” Jen described, “and it says if we receive one more report of anybody being upset…this person will be…declared a suppressive person”).
What took place after Jen B. reported Danny Masterson to cops?
According to her testament, a legal representative from the church pertained to her dad’s home in July 2004 and notified them there was currently a “declare issue” waiting on Swartz’s desk to have her identified a suppressive. Swartz, whose info she provided to cops as one of the very first 3 individuals she outlined being raped, likewise called her and required to understand how they got his number, Jen stated. When she described, Jen continued, Swartz stated, “‘Yeah, you’re f–ked, you have no idea how f–ked you are.'”
She stated she consequently signed a nondisclosure arrangement, which included her being paid $400,000 throughout a year.
“I could enter into the NDA agreement or just end my existence however I wanted to do it, go get a declare order or whatever,” Jen stated.
She affirmed that an investigator connected with her in 2016, describing she was attempting to find Jen’s 2004 report, and cops interviewed her once again in the course of their broader examination into allegations once again Masterson.
According to Jen, she remembered her fellow accuser who’s being recognized in court as Christina B. from when she dated Masterson in the 1990 s, and she initially spoke with accuser N. Trout in the summer season of2017 Jen stated she and Christina contacted us in 2016 and talked several times after.
Asked if she feared any retaliation from her testament, Jen addressed, “Half this courtroom.”
On interrogation, Jen acknowledged not informing cops “the whole truth” in 2004, however kept that whatever she did inform them she thought to be real. Questioned about at first informing cops her 2002 sexual encounter with Masterson was consensual, she stated it wasn’t till 2018 that she pertained to the conclusion that it was something that possibly she would not call rape however rather, as defense lawyer Cohen put it, “something in the middle.”
