Leah Remini continues her quest to expose the truth about her former religion, Scientology, on the second season of her A&E series, "Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath."
On the hit docuseries, Remini set out to document the stories of alleged abuse from former Scientologists, including her own 30-year experience belonging to the organization.
"I can't let the church continue to abuse people and take their money and their lives," Remini said at the beginning of Tuesday's second season premiere episode. "For some reason, I believe that I am the person to help to make it right."
The premiere episode focused on what it's like to grow up in the church and the child sexual abuse allegations of two former members: childhood best friends Saina Kamula and Mirriam Francis. The two women detailed their experiences being born into and being raised in the church, including their accusations of sexual abuse that were allegedly ignored by Scientology.
Scientology declined to take part in the series. It said the statements Remini and the other contributors to the show have made about Scientology are false and driven by a desire to profit or gain publicity from their time in the religion.
Here are the most shocking allegations about growing up in Scientology from the season two premiere:
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The church has little regard for children's relationships with their parents and other family members, Remini said.
Remini said that the belief in reincarnation means Scientology places very little significance on family relationships and marriages — a person's mother is just their mother currently, and the child has many, many mothers over the span of their life.
"Scientologists believe that children are old spirits in little bodies, that they've lived before and they're going to live again," she said. "Why is that dangerous? That's a dangerous concept, because then there's no ownership. You learn that yes, your daughter is your daughter this lifetime, but maybe she was your mother last lifetime and she might be your husband another lifetime."
Under this belief, children are allegedly separated from their parents and have very little contact with them as the children are educated in Scientology at various locations. This is especially true of the children of Sea Org members, an elite group of Scientologists, according to the show.
"I had two children born into the Sea Organization," said Mike Rinder, Scientology's former international spokesman and a frequent contributor to the A&E show. "They were not cared for by me. I didn't house them, I didn't school them, I didn't provide them with anything. When they do videos today saying what a rotten father I was, they're right, I was. I was a Sea Org father."
Scientology enforces a culture of victim blaming in situations of child abuse.
Francis alleged that her father sexually abused her off and on for a period between the ages of 3 to 7 years old in Sydney – her mother was away working for the Sea Org in Los Angeles for nearly two years.
During sessions with an E-meter, the machine Scientologists believe can read when a person is experiencing distress, Francis confessed that she was being sexually abused. She said that when she told them it was her father, she was labeled as a "trouble source" and that there was a "suppressive person"— someone considered an enemy of the church — making her say those things. They disregarded her accusations against her father, she said, because he was a member the Sea Org.
"That is what's so crazy," Remini said. "A little girl is saying, 'My dad is hurting me,' and they're saying, 'Go f--- yourself.'"
Having moved to LA from Sweden, Kamula knew very little English and said she was often bullied by the other children. She found solace in a teacher who offered her a space to play computer games in a room away from others. But his kindness allegedly turned ugly when it progressed to "grinding and rubbing,""tight hugs," and "kisses on the neck," according to Kamula.
She said that at one point, the teacher locked the doors.
"I knew what he wanted and I didn't want that and I froze," she said. "No penetration, but I just remember his red, panting face just making God-awful sounds."
Kamula said she later told another teacher about the abuse and was accused of criticizing an elite Sea Org member and was told that she had to make amends to her alleged abuser.
"I realized there's nothing I can do," Kamula said.
Part of Scientology's culture of victim-blaming allegedly includes labeling the accuser of being "counter-intention."
When Kamula told her mother about the alleged abuse, she said she was told that she was being "counter-intention" to her mother's goals as a Scientologist.
"You're taught pretty early on in Scientology that there's an intention and the intention is to clear the planet," Remini explained. "And that is the most important thing that you are doing, Anything that doesn't contribute to that intention is considered counter-intention. If you're 'being a child,' you're being counter-intention. If you want your mommy or daddy, you're being counter-intention."
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