For some time Rick Ross, self professed independent cult ‘deprogrammer’ and cult-buster has personally participated in and masterminded assaults and organized criminal kidnapping's in the name of "cult deprogramming". One such incident found its way into the public court system with Mr. Ross up on criminal charges once again.
Rick Ross "organized criminal kidnapping's".
According to court testimony, Rick Ross masterminded the assault and abduction of Jason Scott, a Pentecostal Christian who was handcuffed, and taken to a remote house for 5 days under 24 hour surveillance to be deprogrammer. Scott escaped, and sued his captors.
On Sept. 29, 1995 the Washington state jury found that Mr. Ross “intentionally and recklessly acted in a way that is so outrageous in character and so extreme in degree as to be beyond all possible bounds of decency and to be regarded as atrocious and utterly intolerable in a civilized community.” Mr. Ross was found liable for violations of Mr. Scott’s civil rights and ordered to pay $2,500,000 in punitive damages. An effort to challenge this judgment was unsuccessful. The federal judge noted “the defendants seeming incapability of appreciating the maliciousness of their conduct towards Mr. Scott ...” Any news organization who quotes Rick Ross should make it clear to their public that he is a violence prone, convicted felon who was order to pay $2,500,000 in a civil suit (1995) for unlawful and false imprisonment of a Christian to attempt forcibly to change the man’s interpretation of the Bible.
Mr. Ross by his own admission no longer participates in involuntary cult intervention work with adults (kidnapping) but openly sympathize and gives guidelines on his web site.
