Danny Masterson Rape Trial: Jane Doe #3 Spotlights Scientology’s Alleged “Terror Campaign” Against Victims

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UPDATED with afternoon session: A Los Angeles police officer testified Thursday during Danny Masterson’s rape trial that while didn’t remember the specifics of an initial meeting with Jane Doe #1 in 2004 at the LAPD Hollywood station, he did take her claims about being attacked by Masterson in his Hollywood Hills home in April 2003 “to be a sexual assault.” The testimony by the then-front desk officer, Alexander Shlegel, corroborates the testimony the alleged victim gave last week and came on a day when Scientology again came to the fore, with another Masterson accuser detailing the church’s alleged “terror campaign” against her fellow accusers.

Under questioning by Deputy L.A. District Attorney Reinhold Mueller for the last part of today’s hearing, Shlegel confirmed that Jane Doe #1, aka Jen B, said she was attacked by Masterson on April 25, 2003, answering the prosecution’s queries with frequent glances at his report of nearly 20 years ago. “She couldn’t breathe and she thought she was going to die,” Shlegal said Jane Doe #1 told him of her experience, which included a pillow being pushed down on her face.

Like Masterson a longtime Scientologist and a member of his tight social circle, Jane Doe #1 testified this week at length and often in tears about the spring 2003 attack and a 2002 assault.

Almost a year after first visiting a Scientology ethics officer over the 2003 incident, she went to the police with no small hesitation on her part, according to her own statements in previous court filings and in testimony.