Ex-Scientologyfag here.
Scientology stabbing in Oz update. Take note of the trafficking link in this. I actually researched the Taiwan Human Trafficking in Oz Scientology back when the Alice Wu story broke.
Scientology is heavily involved with human trafficking, especially for its Sea Org "religious order".
https://tonyortega.org/2019/01/02/one-dead-in-stabbing-at-scientologys-australian-advanced-org-16-year-old-taken-into-custody/#more-54241
UPDATE: The fatally stabbed Sea Org worker was a Taiwan national, and police say that the assailant was also of Asian descent and “might need an interpreter.” We still don’t know if the family member they had a “domestic” dispute with the day before was someone who was working at the Advanced Org or was getting services there. But this is not the first time that the Scientology facilities in Sydney had problems from their tendency to bring people in from Taiwan.
Steve Cannane in 2013 covered the case of Alice Wu, a woman who claimed she had been trafficked from Taiwan to a Scientology center in Sydney, and who ended up having a mental breakdown.
We hope police in Australia are aware of this history and are asking pointed questions about all of the people involved in today’s incident about their association with the Scientology Advanced Org.
Earlier Trafficking in 2013:
https://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2013-02-25/church-of-scientology-denies-holding-woman-in-isolation/4539658
The Church of Scientology in Sydney has been accused of holding a young Taiwanese woman hostage after she suffered a mental breakdown.
In March 2012, Alice Wu was hospitalised after she punched a window at the Church of Scientology's headquarters in Dundas, in Sydney's west.
Ms Wu badly damaged her right hand in the incident. Her family claims she was trying to escape the facility at the time.
The Church of Scientology denies the allegations, saying Ms Wu was not held captive or forced to do anything against her will.
Ms Wu was 20 and studying commerce when she signed Scientology's billion-year contract in late 2011, joining the elite Sea Organisation and moving from her home town of Taichung to Sydney.
Taiwan has become the major recruiting ground for the Church of Scientology in Australia, following a sharp decline in membership locally.
Two former insiders have told Lateline at least 50 per cent of Scientology's staff in Sydney are Taiwanese.