Serial rapist Danny Masterson arrested

That '70's Show actor, Scientologist and habitual sex criminal Danny Masterson has been arrested on three counts of rape. These were crimes he was accused of committing in 2001 and 2003. He could get 45 years to life.

Last year, Masterson and "Church" of Scientology leader David Miscavige were sued by Masterson's victims for covering up his crimes.

From Vulture.com, August 16, 2019:

The lawsuit, which stems from sexual-assault allegations made against Masterson to the LAPD in 2016, accuses the actor, Miscavige, and the church of stalking and trying to intimidate accusers who have gone public and/or reported accusations to law enforcement. 

At the time, four women accused the actor of sexually assaulting and/or raping them (three of whom were members of the church). One of the women, Marie Bobette Riales, says she began dating Masterson in 2002. She alleged that Masterson drugged her drinks on several occasions so that he could sexually assault her while she was unconscious. 

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What does this new lawsuit have to do with the rape allegations? 

According to the new complaint: “This case is brought … for the Defendants’ conspiracy to cover up that Daniel Masterson sexually assaulted four young women. When those women came forward to report Masterson’s crime, the Defendants conspired to and systemically stalked, harassed, invaded their family’s privacy, and intentionally caused them emotional distress to silence and intimidate them.” 

The lawsuit goes into detail about the many different ways in which the accusers say the church, as well as Masterson, tried to intimate them into silence. 

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So what is the church accused of exactly? 

Overall, the church faces 14 different accusations in the lawsuit, including but not limited to: 

• False imprisonment: Doe says her movements were restricted without her consent and that a combination of physical force and threat of force was used to physically detain her. 

• Kidnapping: She claims she was relocated to a different location, also without her consent. 

• Stalking: The church is accused of placing her and others under surveillance “with the intent to alarm, threaten and harass” on an ongoing basis. 

• Libel: After she says the church publicly called her a “paid liar,” “unethical,” and “rampant[ly] promiscuous,” her potential employment opportunities dried up. 

• Slander: Similarly, the church is accused of making statements about her that were designed to have a negative impact on her public image and employment prospects after leaving the church. 

• Invasion of privacy: She accuses church leaders of using her image (and the images of her family) to defame her/them publicly. The church allegedly created a series of blog posts and other online media that could be used in retaliation against anyone who went public with their stories about the church. The complaint says that Doe “reasonably feared for her safety and the safety of her family.” 

• Human trafficking: Doe say she was deprived of her personal liberty and subjected to “forced labor and/or services” by the church. 

• Workplace violations: The church is accused of failing to pay minimum wage and provide time off according to the California state code. 

The main focus of the suit, says Kent, is that church leaders and its members systematically silence and intimidate victims of sexual and physical abuse “by forbidding them from reporting their abuse to law enforcement and blaming the victims for the abuse they suffered.”

Pro-rape celebrity Ashton Kutcher with Masterson.

Ashton Kutcher, who presents himself as a supporter of #MeToo and a crusader against sex trafficking, is a close friend of Masterson and has been called out by Masterson's victims.

One of the women Masterson raped who has remained anonymous told The Daily Beast:

“Ashton personally knew each victim. I appeared on an episode of Punk’d, I rushed him in my car to make a flight after he finished a That ‘70s Show episode. And he knew the others as well. If Ashton doesn’t believe women he knows—we should think he really supports women? #IBelieveHer?”