AUSTRALIA
Launceston Times
PAUL BIBBY
The NSW Director of Public Prosecutions has dropped its charges against a senior Scientologist who had been accused of telling an 11-year-old girl she should deny charges of sexual abuse against another member of the church.
Janice Meyer, also known as Jan Eastgate, is the head of the church’s Citizens Commission on Human Rights, a group which works to discredit a number of conventional psychiatric treatments, including the use of medications such as Ritalin and Prozac.
In May last year, Ms Meyer was charged with two counts of perverting the course of justice over an alleged incident in 1985. Police had claimed that Ms Meyer told the 11-year-old girl she should deny any charges of sexual abuse to police and officers from the Department of Social Services.
However, in Sydney’s Downing Centre Local Court this morning, a representative of the DPP informed the magistrate that they had dropped all charges against her.
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