But arranged plural marriages were an integral part of Carolyn’s heritage: She was born into and raised in the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS), the radical offshoot of the Mormon Church that had settled in small communities along the Arizona-Utah border.

When she was eighteen years old, Carolyn Jessop was coerced into an arranged marriage with a total stranger: a man thirty-two years her senior. The dramatic first-person account of life inside an ultra-fundamentalist American religious sect, and one woman’s courageous flight to freedom with her eight children. Lewis George Orwell Mary Pope Osborne LeUyen Pham Dav Pilkey Roger Priddy Rick Riordan J.

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“They were not going to abandon their loyalty to him overnight because he was in the hands of the wicked.” (Jeffs resigned as president of the FLDS in late 2007. Still, “Warren’s arrest was not the end of his power,” Carolyn says. Eventually, he was arrested-while in a car that was red, the color he forbade his followers to wear-and convicted. : Jeffs himself went underground to hide from the authorities after being accused of arranging the marriage of an underage girl to her cousin. … We heard they were being sent away to be raised the way Warren wanted them to be raised.” : Jessop heard “rumors that children were being taken from their mothers and sent to the FLDS compound in Texas. ‘He wants your soul and he wants ours.’ ” Two days after her 18 th birthday, Betty returned to the FLDS fold. ” ‘You’re an apostate, owned by the devil!’ Betty said.

After a visit with her father in FLDS-controlled Colorado City, Betty snapped. : The transition to life outside the FLDS was toughest on Betty, Jessop’s oldest daughter.

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