In the wake of updates to Child Safety Standards emerging from Australia’s Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, Mirriam Francis wrote to Victoria’s Commission for Children and Young People outlining the ways in which she sees Scientology teachings and practices to be violating these standards. While concepts of religious freedom and choice can muddy the waters of certain discussions around coercive organisations, Mirriam sees the regulations and laws to protect children as a key lens through which such practices need to be viewed and pursued. She speaks from personal experience that spans three countries.Links:<ul><li>Child Safe Standards — <a href="https://ccyp.vic.gov.au/child-safe-standards/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Commission for Children and Young People Victoria</a> (you can raise a concern <a href="https://ccyp.vic.gov.au/child-safe-standards/raising-child-safety-matters/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">here</a>); <a href="https://www.qfcc.qld.gov.au/childsafe/standards" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Queensland Family & Child Commission</a> (you can raise a concern <a href="https://www.qfcc.qld.gov.au/childsafe/raising-concerns" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">here</a>)</li><li><a href="https://ocg.nsw.gov.au/child-safe-scheme" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Child Safe Scheme</a> — NSW Office of the Children's Guardian (you can raise a concern <a href="https://ocg.nsw.gov.au/employees-and-volunteers/how-report-concern" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">here</a>)</li><li><a href="https://www.safespacelegal.com.au/child-safe-standards/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Australian Child Safe Standards – A State By State Guide 2024</a> — Safe Space Legal</li><li><a href="https://rageagainstthedarkarts.substack.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Rage Against the Dark Arts</a> — Mirriam Francis' Substack</li><li><a href="https://g.co/kgs/FHt4M6A" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Thetans in Young Bodies</a> — Season 2, Episode 1 of Leah Remini's Scientology and the Aftermath in which Mirriam Francis features</li><li><a href="https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Library/Shelf/anderson/index.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Report of the Board of Enquiry into Scientology</a> — by Kevin Victor Anderson, Q.C., the State of Victoria, Australia, 1965</li><li><a href="https://g.co/kgs/HFTnDJJ" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma</a> — by Bessel van der Kolk, Penguin, 2015</li><li><a href="https://g.co/kgs/KVWPq8D" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Truth and Repair: How Trauma Survivors Envision Justice</a> — by Judith Lewis Herman, Basic Books, 2023</li><li><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_Hpqk6NPyVd7M61LtBi-JUI0iJIaM4ny/view?usp=sharing" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Dianetics excerpt re: 7-year-old child responding to kiss from adult male</a></li><li><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1b37UO73zpW16FNWQ1JL3zPvXWzt4qPBB/view?usp=sharing" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">A Children of God message to members mentioning their "friends in Scientology"</a></li><li><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hJpH7GAkbxrkAEaQbjzJE70X5L4l6Wjq/view?usp=sharing" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Introduction to Scientology Ethics High Crimes</a></li></ul>You can support us on <a href="https://www.patreon.com/bePatron?u=7859667" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Patreon</a>. Sarah's book Do As I Say is <a href="https://bit.ly/3dEBQuF" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">available on audiobook</a>. Subscribe and support the production of this independent podcast, and you can access early + ad-free episodes at <a target="_blank" rel="payment" href="https://plus.acast.com/s/lets-talk-about-sects">https://plus.acast.com/s/lets-talk-about-sects</a>.

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