David Miscavige, chief of the secretive and notoriously hostile Scientology cult, has been formally served authorized papers in a intercourse trafficking case this week. Service brokers tried to search out him for a yr, stories Ben Schneiders for The Age, with out success, however a Florida decide has dominated that Miscavige was deliberately evading service and that having despatched the papers by way of licensed mail will do.

For years, David Miscavige has succeeded in evading accountability,” stated John Dominguez, companion at Cohen Milstein, and Zahra Dean, legal professional at Kohn Swift. “In the present day’s ruling brings our purchasers – who’re alleged to have endured unimaginable abuses in Scientology as youngsters and into maturity – one step nearer to getting their day in courtroom and acquiring justice in opposition to all accountable events.”

Scientology spokeswoman Karin Pouw stated the Justice of the Peace’s findings have been “faulty”.

Because the lawsuit has it, youngsters are pressured into indentured servitude till maturity. At which level they’re caught on Scientology’s famously decrepit, asbestos-strewn ocean liner in worldwide waters with nothing however a contract to signal.