A New Beginning For Tara
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Update:
It's Tara's moving day! We all know how stressful it is to pick up everything and move to a new place, and all of the expenses involved. She needs a little bit of help getting started with her new life, please give what you can. Tara will update us in a few days when she's at her new home in Austin.
Hello, I'm Tara Reile, you may have seen me on the TV show, Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath.
I was adopted at the age of 2 into the cult of Scientology, an organization known for its strange beliefs and terrible abuse. As a teenager I was sent to the Mace-Kingsley ranch for 2 years. The ranch was sold as a $30,000 per year private Scientology school, but in reality it was a penal labor camp, with no formal education. The actual cost over two years was $150,000 because of all the forced confessions I had to undergo as a child at $3000 each.
The stories of abuse are endless, but I’ve been locked in a sauna for 3 hours fearing for my life, thrown in a frozen lake for trying to eat a banana, and walked miles through mountains daily to fetch drinking water from a muddy stream. Myself and others were completely discarded by our families, treated as adults in little bodies and left to fend for ourselves. It was truly a horrendous place beyond belief.
This is very difficult to write. As hard as my time at the Ranch was, the past ten years have been a real struggle. I've gone through an abusive relationship, physical and sexual assaults, suicide attempts, depression, financial struggles, etc. In spite of all this, I refuse to break and I am going to fight for a bright future and for my two beautiful children.
Asking for any kind of help goes against my nature, but I’m told that people want to help so I guess this is me trying to swallow my pride, put the past in the past, and start fresh.
Because I spoke out, I’m now being declared a Suppressive Person and much of my family is disconnecting from me. Family members tried hard to shut down the show, even telling me that I would be personally responsible for millions of deaths at the hands of psychiatrists!
To make a long story short, I really need to relocate to Austin, Texas (from Toledo, Ohio) with my two children.
The schools are much better there, I have work lined up, their fathers live in the area, and it will give us a new beginning. I’m receiving therapy for C-PTSD and I know I am still full of potential and hopes and dreams.
Any help provided will be used to help with moving, car repairs, rent, some small debts, and hopefully a little buffer while we settle in so I can ease the financial stress.
I’ve already had such an outpouring of support, thank you all so much for the love you’ve shown me.
It's Tara's moving day! We all know how stressful it is to pick up everything and move to a new place, and all of the expenses involved. She needs a little bit of help getting started with her new life, please give what you can. Tara will update us in a few days when she's at her new home in Austin.
Hello, I'm Tara Reile, you may have seen me on the TV show, Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath.
I was adopted at the age of 2 into the cult of Scientology, an organization known for its strange beliefs and terrible abuse. As a teenager I was sent to the Mace-Kingsley ranch for 2 years. The ranch was sold as a $30,000 per year private Scientology school, but in reality it was a penal labor camp, with no formal education. The actual cost over two years was $150,000 because of all the forced confessions I had to undergo as a child at $3000 each.
The stories of abuse are endless, but I’ve been locked in a sauna for 3 hours fearing for my life, thrown in a frozen lake for trying to eat a banana, and walked miles through mountains daily to fetch drinking water from a muddy stream. Myself and others were completely discarded by our families, treated as adults in little bodies and left to fend for ourselves. It was truly a horrendous place beyond belief.
This is very difficult to write. As hard as my time at the Ranch was, the past ten years have been a real struggle. I've gone through an abusive relationship, physical and sexual assaults, suicide attempts, depression, financial struggles, etc. In spite of all this, I refuse to break and I am going to fight for a bright future and for my two beautiful children.
Asking for any kind of help goes against my nature, but I’m told that people want to help so I guess this is me trying to swallow my pride, put the past in the past, and start fresh.
Because I spoke out, I’m now being declared a Suppressive Person and much of my family is disconnecting from me. Family members tried hard to shut down the show, even telling me that I would be personally responsible for millions of deaths at the hands of psychiatrists!
To make a long story short, I really need to relocate to Austin, Texas (from Toledo, Ohio) with my two children.
The schools are much better there, I have work lined up, their fathers live in the area, and it will give us a new beginning. I’m receiving therapy for C-PTSD and I know I am still full of potential and hopes and dreams.
Any help provided will be used to help with moving, car repairs, rent, some small debts, and hopefully a little buffer while we settle in so I can ease the financial stress.
I’ve already had such an outpouring of support, thank you all so much for the love you’ve shown me.
Organizer
Tara Reile
Organizer
Toledo, OH