Its probably also worth mentioning that his victims were also Scientologists, and therefore ‘forbidden’ from going to the police.
When they did, they were labelled ‘fair game’ and harrassed by the ‘church’.
So there was also a Civil suit - filed before but put on hold until after the Criminal trial - that has The Church Of Scientology itself as a co-defendent
One of the things Masterson’s lawyers were accused of doing was leaking discovery documents from the Criminal case to Scientology’s attorneys in the Civil case