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Alex Barnes-Ross’ Video Showing Him Stalking Woman Taken Down by YouTube
On January 27, just after he was exposed for stalking a female staff member of the Church of Scientology, Alex Barnes-Ross did it again—this time proudly publishing photographic evidence.
Seeking out a second female Church staff member at a public meeting, Barnes-Ross invaded her space, snapped a picture next to her, drew a heart around the two of them and took to YouTube to describe how harassing her was the “highlight of my evening, highlight of my year.” The thumbnail of Barnes-Ross’ YouTube video was his disturbing hot-pink heart, scrawled around the image of him, too close to the woman.
“I got kicked out and I didn’t want to be kicked out.”
The video came down soon thereafter—whether because, in a rare moment of self-awareness, Barnes-Ross realised its incriminating nature, or because YouTube deemed the material unfit for its platform was, at the time, unclear.
But STAND has now received confirmation that the video showing Barnes-Ross’ stalking of a second female Church staff member was taken down by YouTube because its content violated the privacy of the woman he had just stalked.
It’s just more of the same from a profoundly disturbed Alex Barnes-Ross.
As one sexual assault centre put it: “Stalkers may be motivated by obsession, desire
to feel power and control, revenge for being rejected or other sadistic
urges.”
Over a decade ago, Barnes-Ross was rejected by the Church he loved after being rejected by the young woman he refused to stop harassing.
Today, Alex Barnes-Ross devotes his entire existence to stalking and harassing Scientologists and the Church.
As he told the young woman: “The whole time I’ve known you don’t like me, but I’ve just always clinged on to the hope, however small, that you’d just at least give me a chance.… And I just don’t know what to do or how to carry on because I have literally no [control over] my feelings.”
As Alex Barnes-Ross said of the Church, “I got kicked out and I didn’t want to be kicked out.” Scientology “was everything to me. It wasn’t just something I believed in, something I did. Everything about me was Scientology. It was everything to me.”
The story of Alex Barnes-Ross is a simple one: A disturbed, unstable individual refused to accept rejection and became a stalker instead.
