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Help The Child Brides
Imagine your 12, 13, 14 year old daughter having to get married!
Help Flora Jessop stop the madness in Utah!
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Re: Help The Child Brides
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4629320
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Warren Jeffs and the FLDS
by Wade Goodwyn, Howard Berkes and Amy Walters
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http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6520837
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All Things Considered, November 21, 2006 · A young woman who says polygamist leader Warren Jeffs forced her to marry -- and have sex -- at age 14 offered dramatic testimony Tuesday in a courtroom in St. George, Utah.
Jeffs is the leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, or FLDS Church. He's charged in Utah with two counts of "rape as an accomplice."
Tuesday's hearing was to determine whether the case will go to trial. It was the first time that Jeffs faced his accuser, the young woman who is the primary witness against him. NPR does not name alleged victims of sexual assaults.
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Polygamist Jeffs Won't Fight Extradition to Utah
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The followers of polygamist Warren Jeffs believe he is a prophet who holds the keys to heaven. But when Jeffs is extradited to Utah for trial, he'll be sent to Purgatory. Literally. And if not for a quirk of history, he'd be going straight to Hell.
by Howard Berkes
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 14 Year-Old Child Bride Begs Husband
Try to imagine being 14 years-old, forced to marry an old, saggy, man to produce more babies!
14 Year-Old Bride begs husband not to consumate marriage
Listen to this child testify to the horror of her marriage to the Prophet.
This is the USA!
How does this happen in our own back yard?
No one will stop the forced marriages of children. Flora Jessup is their only Hope!
What is wrong with this country?
Have we lost all common sense?
Sexual abuse is a felony.
Sexual abuse is defined as having sexual contact with a child under the age of 17.
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Re: 14 Year-Old Child Bride Begs Husband
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She was 14, she told the court, when Jeffs ordered her into a "spiritual marriage" with her first cousin, a 19-year-old at the time, and then forced her to have sex with him. Such marriages are not legally recognized. Jeffs allegedly told the woman her salvation depended on her compliance.
In court, the young woman sobbed, cried and dabbed at tears as Jess watched her dispassionately. She described learning of her spiritual marriage, and said she was horrified and resisted. She also described the horror of her husband trying to consummate their marriage, which eventually he did.
The defense cross-examined Jess' accuser, showing photos of the couple smiling together. Defense lawyers also read from love notes her husband is said to have sent to the accuser. They also said that Jeffs gave the young woman religious advice and direction consistent with the tenets of his faith.
The hearing took place about 40 miles from the twin communities Jeffs and his group dominate. About 6,000 followers live in the border towns of Hildale, Utah, and Colorado City, Ariz. Jeffs and some of his followers also face charges in Arizona.
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Fundamentalism and Violence
http://www.mormonismi.net/kirjoitukset/lebaron_vakivalta.shtml
Mormon Fundamentalism and Violence: A Historical Analysis
Garn LeBaron Jr.
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And it shall come to pass that I, the Lord God, will send one mighty and strong, holding the scepter of power in his hand, clothed with light for a covering, whose mouth shall utter words, eternal words; while his bowels shall be a fountain of truth, to set in order the house of God.1
In August 1972, followers of Ervil Morel LeBaron murdered his brother, Joel LeBaron as part of a power struggle for control of their particular polygamist church group. Ervil LeBaron quickly became the leader of the Church of the Lamb of God and proceeded to direct his followers in the murders of more than thirty people, all of them members of various polygamist groups. These murders included the execution style killing of prominent Salt Lake City polygamist leader Rulon Allred, as well as several members who tried to leave the LeBaron sect.2
Before LeBaron died in the Utah State Penitentiary in 1981, he authored a book entitled "The Book of New Covenants," which detailed a list of former followers who were to die in the name of God. Throughout the 1980's, children of LeBaron murdered several former church members in Dallas, Houston, Utah, and Mexico.3
In July 1978, the former David Longo, who had himself re-christened Immanuel David, drove a truck up a canyon east of Salt Lake City and proceeded to commit suicide by asphyxiating himself on the exhaust of the vehicle. Three days later, his wife ordered or pushed each of their seven children off the 11th floor balcony of a prominent Salt Lake City hotel to their deaths on the pavement below. She finally jumped herself, thus ending the grisly multiple homicide/suicide scene.4
In 1979, a long running battle between John Singer and Summit County, over whether Singer should be allowed to educate his children at home, came to a striking climax when Singer was shot and killed by police when he resisted their attempts to arrest him. Singer had refused to accept court judgements that his children needed to be educated in the public schools. He was shot during the attempted arrest when police feared that he would shoot one of them.5
On July 24, 1984, Ronald and Dan Lafferty went to the home of their brother Allen, located in American Fork, Utah, and slit the throats of his wife and fifteen month old child with a ten inch hunting knife. Ron and Dan later claimed that they had received a revelation from God telling them to kill these individuals, and that an additional revelation had instructed them to flee to Reno where they were to gamble and binge on booze, pot, and whores.6
In January of 1988, Adam Swapp bombed a Mormon Stake Center in Kamas, Utah in retaliation for the death of his father-in-law, John Singer, who was killed by police nine years earlier. Swapp and his family then proceeded to hold off an army of police officers and federal agents in a 13 day standoff before police finally stormed their cabin and took them into custody following a violent gun battle in which one officer was killed.7 .......
http://www.mormonismi.net/kirjoitukset/lebaron_vakivalta.shtml
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Please, Learn before we leap.......
"If any man espouse a virgin, and desire to espouse another, and the first give her consent, and if he espouse the second, and they are virgins, and have vowed to no other man; then is he justified; he cannot commit adultery for they are given unto him; for he cannot commit adultery with that that belongeth unto him and to no one else.
And if he have ten virgins given unto him by this law, he cannot commit adultery, for they belong to him, and they are given unto him; therefore is he justified."
(Moore-Emmett, A. God's Brothel:
The Extortion of Sex for Salvation in Contemporary Mormon and Christian Fundamentalist... .)
http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/1930074131/ref=sib_dp_pt#reader-link
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She was 14, she told the court, when Jeffs ordered her into a "spiritual marriage" with her first cousin, a 19-year-old at the time, and then forced her to have sex with him. Such marriages are not legally recognized. Jeffs allegedly told the woman her salvation depended on her compliance.
In court, the young woman sobbed, cried and dabbed at tears as Jess watched her dispassionately. She described learning of her spiritual marriage,
and said she was horrified and resisted.
She also described the horror of her husband trying to consummate their marriage, which eventually he did.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6520837
(Where is the caring, peaceful, protective mother or father?)
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We have been trying to get people interested in the sexual abuse of young males and females for years.
This Forum Thread was started in 2006, so this is not something new to those of us who have worked with Flora Jessop.
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May 3, 2005 ·
In 2002, Warren Jeffs succeeded his father Rulon as prophet of the FLDS.
Jeffs is said to keep a tight grip on the polygamous community, using wives as rewards for loyalty among followers.
In April of 2001, Ruby Jessop attempted to break away from an oppressive and abusive isolated community in Colorado City, Arizona after being forced to marry her step-brother. She received insufficient support from government authorities in Utah and Arizona and ended up back under the control of her authoritarian, isolationist community of the FLDS Church polygamists . Since then she's rarely been seen in public, never unescorted. When a girl has tried to run the polygamists isolate them away and re-educate them. Ruby hasn't been able to speak to any outsider since she was returned to the polygamists.
The polygamists fight very hard to get these girls back.
Ruby's sister, Flora Jessop, with John Walsh before taping a segment for his show.
They use threats, intimidation, subterfuge, and they have a legal firm on retainer that is used to manipulate the legal system.
The girls of the FLDS are brought up to be married off at the earliest possible age. The Elders pick husbands for them, usually polygamous men who are much older than they. Sometimes these girls aren’t even aware they are to be married until the day of the marriage.
These children are brought up in a secluded, deprived environment. They are given minimal educational opportunities, don’t watch TV, listen to radio, nor go to movies. They are taught that "outsiders" are of Satan, to be avoided. They are woefully ignorant of the outside world and are taught that forced marriages to older men is normal. Their self-esteem is almost non-existant.
http://helpthechildbrides.com/
* "Escape"
Carolyn Jessop´s best seller about her courageous escape from FLDS opression
* "Under the Banner of Heaven"
Jon Krakauer´s best seller exposes Polygamous Cult Violence
* " Brainwash to Hogwash" Aunt Jennie Larson Speaks out
One of our favorite characters tells about growing up in the 1950's polygamous community.
Aunt Jennie was helping people escape that lifestyle long before most of us had heard about it.
* "Keep Sweet; Children of Polyamy
Former Polygamous wife Debbie Palmer gives a poignant look at growing up in polygamy.
* Author John Llewellyn
Polygamy expert's works include a first hand account about Tom Green, and two novels about living polygamy.
* Ben Bistline's history of Colorado City
Lifetime resident of Colorado City writes from sources as well as his own Journal.
* "God's Brothel"
Outstanding book that tells the stories of 18 women who escaped polygamy
http://helpthechildbrides.com/books.htm
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