AUSTRALIA
ABC Ilawarra
By court reporter Jamelle Wells
New South Wales prosecutors have dropped charges against a Scientologist who was accused of telling a child she should deny charges of sex abuse against another church member.
Jan Eastgate is the head of the church’s Citizens Commission on Human Rights, a group that works to discredit conventional psychiatric treatments.
In 2011 she was charged with perverting the course of justice.
Police claimed that in 1985 she told an 11-year-old girl she should deny any charges of sexual abuse to police and officers from the Department of Social Services.
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