verified. although they disagree who was perpetrating it, both sides describe a work environment inside the church where punching, choking, kicking as a means of discipline and intimidation occurred on numerous occasions and no one ever filed criminal charges or even called the police. tommy davis is the church spokesman and monique is an attorney for the church. how is it possible that a member of the church could assault a dozen people and nobody come forward about it and nobody file any charges? how come the church didn t file any charges if in fact marty rathbun was beating people up. people did come forward about it. there were reports written, as mr. davis pointed out. the reason there were reports written was because it was very untoward many. there may have been some people who decided they didn t want to report it and suffered it in silence. there were indeed reports written. why didn t the church proceed with charges? aggravated assault is a felony,
the point is when mr. miscavige was informed, marty was removed, that s what matters. there s no physical evidence proving the former scientology charges just as the affidavit attacking miscavidge and his critics cannot be verified. although they disagree who was perpetrating it, both sides describe a work environment inside the church where punching, choking, kicking as a means of discipline and intimidation occurred on numerous occasions and no one ever filed criminal charges or even called the police. tommy davis is the church spokesman and monique is an attorney for the church. how is it possible that a member of the church could assault a dozen people and nobody come forward about it and nobody file any charges? how come the church didn t file any charges if in fact marty rathbun was beating people up. people did come forward about it. there were reports written, as mr. davis pointed out.
silence, but there were, indeed, reports written. reporter: so why didn t the church, then, decide to proceed with charges? aggravated assault is a felony? it s against the law. the church treats it as an internal matter, and he was disciplined internally. reporter: i understand that you said that marty rathbun beat people more than a dozen times or so. you said mike rinder has beat people, and that was known apparently at the time, at least some of it was known at the time, and yet that seemed to be acceptable behavior in the church? i mean, that no charges were ever filed against any of these people. it seems remarkable to me if, in fact, that is really the truth. unless the opposite is true and their charges are true and it was the head of the church who was doing the beatings, in which case it would make sense that no charges would be filed or no one would come forward. well, they were removed. the point is they were removed. the choice of the individuals on whether they we