Lara and Mona provide Information on how to file your crime report
CONTACTING LAW ENFORCEMENT
These steps were given directly from the FBI Kansas City office where this historical precedent setting case was filed about Forced Labor from a cult. The similarities are profound! This case JUST happened and the cult leaders were sentenced in February 2025. Be the change you want to see. Follow these steps and file a claim.
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Review the UNOI claim
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Were you a victim after 2000 of forced labor violations? Under or over the age of 18 doesn’t matter, however minors are more egregious. You are protected under TVPA
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Walk into an F.B.I. Field office, file an online report by contacting your local F.B.I. Office, or call the national hotline: National Human Trafficking Hotline toll-free at 1-888-373-7888, which is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
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​ Tell them you want to report a crime - give them a copy of or read to them the article from the UNOI case. Tell them this case is the same but you are filing a complaint against scientology.
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Be prepared with the W’s who, what, where and when. Do not be concerned if you are not 100% complete with the information, you can add or continue as the claim progresses.
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An F.B.I. officer or agent will open a case and follow up with you.
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Filing a crime report is crucial for ensuring justice and helps law enforcement investigate criminal activities effectively.
Your voice matters, taking action can make a difference. No Victim, No Crime.
The Frederick Douglass Trafficking Victims Prevention and Protection Reauthorization Act of 2018, Pub. L. No. 115-425, among other things, increased the federal government’s focus on addressing forced labor, including by:
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Amending the 18 U.S.C. 1375c to include prevention and prohibition of labor trafficking in diplomatic households
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Increased reporting obligations regarding the prohibition of goods produced through forced labor
The Act also required the SPOG to establish a working group focused on demand reduction, and amended the Child Soldiers Prevention Act to include “police or other security forces.”
Human Trafficking is a crime involving the exploitation of a person for labor, services, or commercial sex.
The Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 and its subsequent reauthorizations recognize and define two primary forms of human trafficking:
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Sex trafficking is the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, obtaining, patronizing, or soliciting of a person for the purpose of a commercial sex act in which a commercial sex act is induced by force, fraud, or coercion, or in which the person induced to perform such act has not attained 18 years of age. (22 U.S.C. § 7102(11)(A)).
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Forced labor is the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for labor or services, through the use of force, fraud, or coercion for the purpose of subjection to involuntary servitude, peonage, debt bondage, or slavery. (22 U.S.C. § 7102(11)(B)).
Additional legal definitions are contained in 18 U.S.C. Chapter 77 (criminal definitions) and 19 U.S.C. § 1307 (includes definition of “forced labor” for purposes of implementing the federal prohibition on importation of goods produced with forced labor).