The niece of a Scientology leader has detailed an alleged brutal ‘murder routine’ that is reportedly conducted during the organization’s interrogations.
The woman, who ‘escaped’ the Church of Scientology, has claimed that the so-called religion uses a mental trick in order to get people to make ‘confessions’.
Jenna Miscavige spoke to LADbible about growing up in the organization and recalled being asked ‘traumatizing’ questions as a child, saying: “I knew of Scientology before I knew of anything else.”
Advert
As the niece of Scientology’s Chairman of the Board, David Miscavige, the 41 year old woman is speaking out about her experience.
Jenna left the Church back in 2005 and sat down with LADbible for an episode of Minutes With where she explained what it was like to be interrogated with an ‘E-meter’, which is short for ‘electro psychometer’.
Jenna shared her insight on the practice, explaining that the ‘E-meter’ is a device with ‘two cans’ that the person being interrogated holds.
Advert
She continued: “Basically, it puts a tiny current of electricity through one side, goes through here, then back into the E-meter, and then the needle registers what's going on. It’s sort of like a lie detector.”
She added that the interrogators ask questions to see ‘if you’re telling the truth’ but also use it for other parts of Scientology processes like ‘counselling’.
Jenna said: ““I mean, they would ask anything from like, ‘have you stolen anything?’ ‘Were you unproductive?’ ‘Did you flirt with anybody?’ ‘Did you have sex before you were married?’
“I remember the first interrogation that I got. I didn’t really know the procedure, and so they just started out asking me if I had done anything bad.”
Advert
Saying that she’d always just say ‘nope’, Jenna went on to say: “Why would I say yes?”
And the woman has now claimed that the organization would often do ‘what’s called the murder routine’ where questions about ‘really horrible things’ are asked in a bid to get you to confess to something else.
Jenna said: “[It’s] to make you say, ‘no, I didn't do that. I just did this’. So they have all these like, mental tricks.”
Advert
In her first interrogation, Jenna remembered being asked ‘did you rob a bank?’ before ‘did you have sex with your father?’.
At just 12 years old at the time, she said the ordeal was ‘so traumatising’.
Nowadays, she helps others to leave the organization and shares an insider’s take on the beliefs, rituals and secrets of the controversial ‘religion’.
LADbible Group has contacted the Church of Scientology for comment.