The Church of Scientology did not violate the U.S. Trafficking Victims Protection Act despite a couple’s claims that it required them to work 100 hours a week for $50 each, forced them to perform manual labor including cleaning up dried human excrement and forced the wife to undergo two abortions, a federal appeals court has ruled.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit concluded Tuesday that Marc and Claire Headley, both former ministers at the church’s 500-acre headquarters in Gilman Hot Springs, California, could have left at any time and in fact traveled throughout the United States and Europe on a regular basis. The panel noted both left the church in 2005 without incident.
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