Rome, 2 Dec. (TMNews) – The Church of Scientology has denied the statements of Valeska Paris, a resident of Australia and born in Switzerland and daughter of two members of the organization: in an interview with the US television network Abc Paris she said she was sent to ship at age eighteen because the church wanted to keep her away from her mother, for fear it might alienate her from Scientology; in an interview with French television, the mother had then accused the organization founded by L.Ron Hubband of having led her ex-husband to suicide: the man, who had made his fortune by himself, had died in poverty and in his diary he had accused Scientology of robbing him.
In a statement, the church points out that the woman was a volunteer crew member of the Freewinds, as well as a member of the staff of the Church of Scientology since 1996: "When she joined the Church of Scientology she was already an adult and did so of her own free choice" ; moreover, "The man to whom she was married from 1998 to 2005 said that her allegations about her are completely false."
“While she was a crew member of the Freewinds she went off the ship hundreds of times to go shopping, to take trips with her husband to the islands of St. Kitts, Aruba, St. Barts and Curaçao, and for numerous other reasons. He was also absent from the ship for long periods to make trips to England, the United States and Denmark, each time passing through the customs of those countries", continues the statement, noting that the ship "also acts as a training vessel and has received from the Coast Guard American an award from the United States Homeland Security describing the Freewinds as the "best training base in the Caribbean Basin".
