The three women were members of the Church of Scientology, as is Masterson. All three women said they were initially hesitant to speak to law enforcement because they said church teachings discouraged reporting to police. The women eventually left the church.
Cults are bad, people. Religion is bad because it’s a normalized / accepted cult. Eff this guy.
I noticed that Topher Grace didn’t get mentioned for writing a letter to the judge. I’ve never thought he’s a great actor (he was pretty good in Traffic), but I like him a bit more now.
Rapists can be generally upstanding people outside of rape. It doesn’t make them not rapists. The whole concept of a “character witness” is stupid. The only question on the minds of those jurors should be “did this person forcefully rape these women?”.
Still to this day people have such unconscious biases to what rape looks like.