Man Gets $5M In Cult Case

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>>>>> "Ian" == Richard Masoner <richardm@cd.com> writes:

    Ian> Forwarded message:
    >> From chai@chip.cs.uiuc.edu Mon Oct 2 17:45:12 1995
    Ian> Date: Mon, 2 Oct 1995 17:40:42 -0500 Message-Id:
    Ian> <199510022240.AA02406@chip.cs.uiuc.edu> To: Richard Masoner
    Ian> <richardm@cd.com> Subject: Man Gets $5M In Cult Case From:
    Ian> chai@uiuc.edu (Ian Chai) X-Charset: LATIN1

    Ian> Thought you'd be interested:

    Ian> These news article[s] were excerpted from ClariNet's wire
    Ian> newsfeeds. Since this is a pay service, I cannot legally send
    Ian> the entire articles, only small excerpts. If you are at uiuc
    Ian> or any other ClariNet subscriber, you can read the entire
    Ian> article[s].  If you don't have a ClariNet subscription and
    Ian> want one, contact info@clarinet.com.  Ian

    Ian>         SEATTLE (AP) -- A man taken from his home by
    Ian> ``deprogrammers'' who tried to persuade him to leave the
    Ian> United Pentecostal Church has been awarded nearly $5 million
    Ian> by a federal court jury.  Jurors found Friday that Jason
    Ian> Scott was deprived of his freedom of religion by Rick Ross,
    Ian> Ross' associates and the Cult Awareness Network, a
    Ian> Chicago-based group that monitors cults.  Scott's mother,
    Ian> Kathy Tonkin, contacted the defendants in 1991 when she
    Ian> became worried about her son's membership in the church.
    Ian> Ross and others found Scott at his mother's home in the
    Ian> Seattle suburb of Kirkland in January 1991 and took him to
    Ian> the Washington coast. There, Scott contended, they held him
    Ian> against his will for five days while they tried to force him
    Ian> to renounce his faith.  ...

I get clari.* and would like to see the entire story, but you did not
say which clari.* newsgroup this story was in, nor what day, or
anything else that might help me locate it.  It is apparently too
recent to look up with DejaNews, and I could not find it in
clari.apbl.briefs or clari.apbl.headlines or clari.nb.law, so I gave
up guessing where it might be, realizing that it might not be there
anymore anyway.  If I only knew, I could retrieve it from the
archives.  Could you please tell me where you got it -- which clari.*
newsgroup, what day, and perhaps even the message numbwer if you still
have it?  I am extremely interested in this sort of thing.  Thanks!

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