Los Angeles Parents Buy Billboard Hoping to Reach Their Scientologist Children
LatestTwo Los Angeles parents have posted a billboard in the Echo Park neighborhood hoping that it will grab the attention of their two adult children. Willie and Phil Jones have not spoken to their children, Emily and Mark, since leaving the church of Scientology two years ago.
Los Angeles’ ABC 7 reports:
They’ve been disconnected, which is what Scientologists call their choice to cut off communication with people outside the church. Mike and Emily Jones are Scientologists. Emily Jones works for the upper management of the church, her parents said.
“We know what the conditioning is and what goes on there. It is a form of hypnosis. We’ve experienced it, we went through it. We were in that mindset for years,” Phil Jones said.
After making multiple calls to their children as well as showing up on the doorstep of the church, the Jones’ became increasingly desperate. That’s when they say they decided to put up the billboard. The couple raised enough money to keep the billboard up on Glendale Boulevard for a month.