French-kissing Wilt Chamberlain: Adventures of a teenager in the skeezy world of Scientology - 2017-11-09

French-kissing Wilt Chamberlain: Adventures of a teenager in the skeezy world of Scientology November 9, 2017, Tony Ortega, Underground Bunker

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Last year, we told you a unique love story, about a 16-year-old girl, Rebecca McKee, who had to give up her boyfriend, Tom McCaffrey, because of her family's involvement in the Church of Scientology. Some 43 years later, Rebecca and Tom finally got a chance to meet again. By then, Rebecca was no longer in Scientology, and their meeting led to the two of them getting married.

Rebecca's father, Brown McKee, was also an interesting part of that story. An MIT-educated engineer who embraced Dianetics and met L. Ron Hubbard, he eventually testified in the 1982 Clearwater Commission hearings after Scientology had been exposed in an FBI raid. In that testimony, McKee told a devastating story about his wife's death to cancer after they followed Scientology procedures and kept her from getting proper medical care.

The McKee family story is fascinating, but recently Rebecca got in touch with us again because she's been so affected by Leah Remini's A&E series, Scientology and the Aftermath. Watching the accounts of Chantal Dodson and Sherry Ollins, she thought about the things she went through as a child growing up in the church. She decided to send us this account of her experience as a child in Scientology.

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