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Captivity case may be tied to faith // Investigation: Church teachings may explain why a mentally ill woman was kept locked up in her Pomona home, police say

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Title: Captivity case may be tied to faith // Investigation: Church teachings may explain why a mentally ill woman was kept locked up in her Pomona home, police say
Date: Saturday, 13 January 1990
Publisher: Los Angeles Times (California)
Authors: John H. Lee, John Johnson
Main source: articles.latimes.com
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Tags: Anti-psychiatry • Audrey Twede • Edwin Clemens Coenan • False imprisonment • Floyd Twede • Introspection Rundown (also, "Baby watch") • James R. Privitera • John H. Lee • John Johnson • Los Angeles Times (California) • Marianne Coenan • Mental illness • Shirley Young • Timothy Bowles

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Pomona police said Friday they are investigating whether beliefs espoused by the Church of Scientology led a family to confine a mentally disabled woman in a cell-like bedroom at a Phillips Ranch house. While stressing that neither the church nor its beliefs are under investigation, police said they want to know if Scientology practices could explain why the woman was kept in confinement. Police and Los Angeles County mental health workers discovered Marianne Coenan, 31, locked in a sparsely furnished room ... [Read the rest at articles.latimes.com]