But in 2003, Carolyn chose freedom over fear and fled her home with her eight children. No woman in the country had ever escaped from the FLDS and managed to get her children out, too. Carolyn was miserable for years and wanted out, but she knew that if she tried to leave and got caught, her children would be taken away from her. For in the FLDS, a wifes compliance with her husband determined how much status both she and her children held in the family. He chose when they had sex Carolyn could only refuseat her peril. I enjoyed reading the book Escape except that I found Carolyn Jessop could be quite manipulative at times.

He controlled the money she earned as a school teacher. He decided where she lived and how her children would be treated. This content was uploaded by our users and we assume good faith. Over the next fifteen years, Carolyn had eight children and withstood her husbands psychological abuse and the watchful eyes of his other wives who were locked in a constant battle for supremacy.Ĭarolyns every move was dictated by her husbands whims.

But arranged plural marriages were an integral part of Carolyns 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. She became the first woman ever granted full custody of her children in a contested suit involving the FLDS. THE HARROWING STORY OF ONE WOMANS ESCAPE FROM THE FUNDAMENTALIST CHURCH OF LATTER-DAY SAINTSAged eighteen, Carolyn Jessop was forced to marry a 50-year-old stranger and religious cult member.She became one of 6 wives and bore him 8 children in 15 years. Against this background, Carolyn Jessops flight takes on an extraordinary, inspiring power.

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. Escape exposes a world that is tantamount to a prison camp, created by religious fanatics.

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