Man Gets $5M In Cult Case (fwd)

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>From chai@chip.cs.uiuc.edu Mon Oct  2 17:45:12 1995
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 1995 17:40:42 -0500
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To: Richard Masoner <richardm@cd.com>
Subject: Man Gets $5M In Cult Case                            
From: chai@uiuc.edu (Ian Chai)
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        SEATTLE (AP) -- A man taken from his home by ``deprogrammers'' 
who tried to persuade him to leave the United Pentecostal Church 
has been awarded nearly $5 million by a federal court jury.  
        Jurors found Friday that Jason Scott was deprived of his freedom 
of religion by Rick Ross, Ross' associates and the Cult Awareness 
Network, a Chicago-based group that monitors cults.  
        Scott's mother, Kathy Tonkin, contacted the defendants in 1991 
when she became worried about her son's membership in the church.  
        Ross and others found Scott at his mother's home in the Seattle 
suburb of Kirkland in January 1991 and took him to the Washington 
coast. There, Scott contended, they held him against his will for 
five days while they tried to force him to renounce his faith.  
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