The Most Shocking Revelations From Danny Masterson’s Rape Trial

When did Jen. B 1st report her alleged rape to law enforcement?

Jen testified that she went to the LAPD’s Hollywood Station to file a report in June 2004, a year after the alleged attack, outlining that she was hesitant to go to police “since I was a Scientologist and Mr. Masterson is a Scientologist, and you can not report yet another Scientologist in fantastic standing to the authorities.”

(A church spokeswoman has denied any policy preventing its customers from reporting crimes, such as kinds perhaps committed by fellow members.)

“My comprehension was I would immediately be guilty of a high crime,” Jen ongoing. “A substantial criminal offense arrives with a penalty of expulsion from Scientology…You can’t speak or have contact or something at all with a man or woman who has been expelled or declared a suppressive person…That would have major ramifications.”

Questioned what kind of ramifications, she explained, “My everyday living would be around. My parents [both Scientologists] would have to disconnect with me. My daughter [7 or 8 at the time] couldn’t go to her school… My mom and dad wouldn’t communicate to me. I would not have anywhere to do the job or stay. I would not have any place to go.” Jen explained she wasn’t certain that her mother and father would pick out her around the church if she still left.

Ahead of likely to police, Jen mentioned, she despatched a letter in search of permission to Mike Ellis, the church’s International Justice Main, and asking him for assurance that she would not be declared. He did not give authorization, she recalled.

She testified she gave the police images she taken in the days immediately subsequent her April 25, 2003, experience with Masterson of bruises on her body, as nicely as copies of awareness studies prepared up about her and the actor and a “non-interpolation order” (a paper which is circulated inside a group of folks about factors you are doing or have done that have “established considerably chaos in a group,” Jen explained, “and it says if we get a single much more report of any one being upset…this human being will be…declared a suppressive particular person”).

What transpired following Jen B. reported Danny Masterson to police?

According to her testimony, a attorney from the church arrived to her father’s property in July 2004 and informed them there was now a “declare concern” waiting on Swartz’s desk to have her labeled a suppressive. Swartz, whose details she gave to police as 1 of the 1st three people today she informed about currently being raped, also known as her and demanded to know how they received his quantity, Jen said. When she described, Jen continued, Swartz reported, “‘Yeah, you might be f–ked, you have no notion how f–ked you are.'”

She mentioned she subsequently signed a nondisclosure agreement, which included her currently being paid $400,000 over the course of a calendar year.

“I could enter into the NDA agreement or just end my existence however I needed to do it, go get a declare purchase or whatever,” Jen explained.

She testified that a detective acquired in contact with her in 2016, outlining she was trying to identify Jen’s 2004 report, and police interviewed her yet again in the course of their broader investigation into accusations again Masterson.

In accordance to Jen, she remembered her fellow accuser who’s remaining identified in court docket as Christina B. from when she dated Masterson in the 1990s, and she first spoke to accuser N. Trout in the summer time of 2017. Jen said she and Christina received in touch in 2016 and talked several instances following. 

Asked if she feared any retaliation from her testimony, Jen answered, “50 % this courtroom.”

On cross-evaluation, Jen acknowledged not telling police “the entire reality” in 2004, but maintained that no matter what she did tell them she considered to be true. Questioned about originally telling law enforcement her 2002 sexual come upon with Masterson was consensual, she claimed it wasn’t till 2018 that she came to the summary that it was one thing that possibly she would not call rape but relatively, as protection attorney Cohen set it, “a little something in the middle.”