“Victim Advocate” or Abuser?
Mike Rinder’s Assault on Children

A complaint filed for violence against a 6-year-old has come to light and confirms Rinder was a danger to even children.

A police report from a distraught mother accused Mike Rinder of grabbing and injuring her young son.

Revealing yet another dangerous display of aggression by Mike Rinder, a report filed with the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office detailed an altercation between Rinder and two 6-year-old boys in February 2015. The incident raised serious concerns about the safety of children around a man with a long history of violent behavior.

According to the incident report, deputies were dispatched February 16, 2015, to investigate a case of “neighborhood trouble” in Palm Harbor, Florida. A woman reported that her 6-year-old son and a neighbor’s child had gone to Rinder’s residence for a playdate with his young son. When they rang the doorbell, Rinder exploded in rage. He stormed outside, grabbed one of the boys, shouted profanities, and possibly scratched his back. The other child’s mother confirmed the timing of the incident.

A deputy later observed a scratch on the boy’s back. Rinder, predictably, denied touching the child—but admitted that after chasing the boys, he watched as one of them fell, and instead of offering him help, he stood over the child and loudly berated him.

The Sheriff’s Office incident report included the mother’s complaint describing the assault on her son and Rinder’s own mild rendition. But even in his watered-down telling, Rinder unleashed his hateful aggression on a 6-year-old.

The legal system may have let it slide, but the facts were undeniable. Faced with two 6-year-olds at his door, Rinder’s response was physical aggression and verbal abuse.

This newly uncovered incident adds yet another layer to Rinder’s dark history of violence. Earlier reports detail a litany of attacks he carried out on female and male colleagues, and later—most egregiously—his own wife, leaving her permanently disabled.

After being expelled from the Church of Scientology, Rinder even admitted to his violent tendencies in a 2009 newspaper interview, confessing how he was once “holding a church staffer against a wall by the collar and pressing into his throat.” The above 2015 incident proves his mindset never changed.

Yet Rinder shamelessly called himself a “victim advocate.” He even sat on the board of Child USA, an organization supposedly dedicated to protecting children—although a Freedom Magazine series exposed the hypocrisy of that claim. The irony is staggering. How could a man who terrorized small children claim to be a champion for victims? The answer is obvious: He could not.

Mike Rinder carefully crafted a public persona of moral righteousness. But incidents like this further expose the truth—that even children were not safe from his explosive temper.