This happened sometime in the late 90’s. Maybe 97 or 98.
There are a lot of things, looking back, that I wonder how come it was me that was “qualified” to deal with certain things.
Honestly Sea Org members in general, especially a second gen, is only trained in Scientology and not educated on anything outside the bulletins and policies of its founder, L. Ron Hubbard. You might find a trained engineer or dentist in the Sea Org, but someone who had studied about trauma? No. Because Hubbard instilled it his members that only he had the right answers.
And so we begin.
I was a Case Supervisor (aka C/S). That meant I had authority within the organization to direct any and all auditing sessions and training within the org.
There were two other Case Supervisors but when they were unavailable, the files came to me for direction.
I was sent a file of a man named William, who was asking for permission to go back home to Hawaii. I wasn’t his regular Case Supervisor, Angie LaClaire was, but she was unavailable.
Anyone leaving after auditing needs to have approval from the C/S to leave.
It appeared from what I could tell that he had completed the program that he was given, and was at a rest point, so I approved for him to go back home.
About two hours later, the Ethics Officer, Melanie von Gunten, came to see me to tell me that she had just physically stopped an eight and a half month pregnant woman from jumping from the 6th floor. It took all her might to push her back into the room from the window.
Melanie had seen the woman on one of the lower floors, clearly very upset, and followed her, trying to talk to her. She followed her up to and into her hotel room. The woman never spoke. She had just gone right for the window to jump, which Melanie had stopped.
Melanie had managed to get her away from the window and back down to the second floor, where the auditing sessions occurred.
Within a few minutes Angie LaClaire and Kathy Schobel, the other two C/Ses, were in my office with Melanie, trying to find out what happened.
The pregnant woman was Taiwanese, unmarried. We learned that she could not have her child unmarried. It would ruin not only the mother’s, but also child’s life. She felt the only thing she could do was end life for both of them.
The father, William, from Hawaii, was refusing to marry her. I had no idea they had come to CC to resolve that specific thing. It was an unusual reason to come in for auditing sessions.
Now he was on a plane to Hawaii already.
We were all just starting to figure out what we were going to do, when in walks Marty Rathbun, I believe he was Deputy Inspector General for Ethics, second in command under Chairman of the Board, David Miscavige.
To be continued….