Danny Masterson has decided not to take the stand in his own defense in his rape trial.
25.10.2022 - 21:41 / deadline.com
“She had told me not to use the word rape,” a visibly shaken Jane Doe #3 told a downtown Los Angeles courtroom Tuesday in the Danny Masterson trial. “She explained to me that you can’t rape someone you are in a relationship with,” the witness went on to say of a late 2003 conversation with a Scientology executive at the church’s Celebrity Centre in Hollywood.
Recounting her recollection of the meeting with Scientology ethics officer Miranda Scoggins almost 20 years ago, Jane Doe #3, aka CB, told Deputy LA District Attorney Reinhold Mueller that Scoggins also said to her that “I had done something to cause it …we’re all responsible for the condition we’re in.”
“She explained to me there was no crime committed and she put me on an ethics program,” CB, who was Masterson’s longtime girlfriend at the time, said on the stand today. Soon after, she became so overcome that the jury were sent out of the courtroom and Judge Charlaine Olmedo stopped the hearing for almost 15 minutes.
Before that break, CB told the court that the 2003 meeting at Scientology’s Franklin Avenue Celebrity Centre mansion occurred after she woke up in the couple’s Hollywood Hills home with pain and bleeding in her anus.
“When I first woke up I felt very confused and I noticed that my whole body hurt,” CB said of coming to after dinner and drinks the night before at La Poubelle restaurant, across the street from the Celebrity Centre. “I noticed that I was injured …my bottom. It was red. It was not normal. It was torn and it had a little bleeding. I was in a lot of pain. I couldn’t sit down, it hurt to go to the restroom.”
On her second day in the witnesss stand and with Masterson looking on from the defense table just a few feet away, CB detailed going
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