Scientology Lies

by John Carpenter

Thousands of people who called the Cult Awareness Network over the past several years now face the possibility that files of their dealings with the group could be sold.

The woman, who asked that her name not be used, said her 16-year-old daughter left to join a religious group 12 years ago. The woman called the Cult Awareness Network, once based in northwest suburban Barrington, which she said offered moral support as well as advice about how to deal with the situation, though nothing succeeded in persuading the daughter to leave.

Six years later the daughter left the religious group on her own. But her husband and their other children are still members. Now the woman is afraid files about her involvement with Cult Awareness Network could be sold to the highest bidder, perhaps the very group to which her daughter once belonged.