Posted on 05/16/2008 8:32:53 AM PDT by MizSterious
May 16, 2008 —
The recent raid on Warren Jeffs' Yearning for Zion ranch in Eldorado, Texas, which resulted in the removal of more than 400 children from their homes, has thrust allegations of widespread child abuse at the polygamous sect into the national spotlight.
But one of the darkest secrets of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints unfolds at a seedy roadside motel in the remote Nevada desert, where underage girls --some as young as 14 --are allegedly forced through hasty and secret wedding ceremonies.
Elissa Wall says she was one such 14-year-old who was taken to the motel and plunged into wedlock with no choice but to accept and obey the command of Jeffs.
Sam Brower, a private detective who has spent five years investigating Jeffs and his sect for a number of former members, says the weddings are done "covertly, real cloak-and-dagger like."
Wall, now 21, told ABC News' John Quinones that, "I was trapped. I felt like I had nowhere to turn. I did not want to go through with this marriage. I felt, honestly, what it was like to die."
Watch the story tonight on "20/20" at 10 ET
Wall has documented her terrible ordeal in a new memoir called "Stolen Innocence."
In it, she described in detail growing up in the sect that she says betrayed her faith. She says her wedding was the culmination of a traumatic experience that began when church leaders removed her, her mom and sisters from their family and reassigned them to. . .
(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...
bttt
Well soneone needs to go to jail.
A note for all you liberals here, Ruth Bader Ginsburg appointed Bill Clinton to the SCOTUS once wrote a paper advocating lowering the age of consent for sex between an adult and a minor to 11 years old.
A note to all those who address liberals here and don’t name them, RBG did not appoint BFC to the SCOTUS.
FYI only. Not a daily thread, nor a daily thread ping.
A riveting story, Miz. And it was so satisfying to read how this young woman overcame a nightmare life and is now happily married.
If you would use punctuation and critical words, your posts might make more sense.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, appointed by Bill Clinton to the SCOTUS, once wrote a paper
Ping
Sorry I just received this new cell phone and between the little keys and screen, and of course not proofing.
my bad
Naw. It can’t be. You mean there’s trouble in that idyllic paradise that existed in Warren Jeffs group?
She must just have an axe to grind.
President Hillary might appoint Bill to the S.C.
“Innocence” isn’t all that it’s cracked up to be.
Truely a sick and disgusting cult. Sad that among some peopple, and some people here the government is made out to be the bad guys.
Are you mocking the case of what was a 14 year old rape victim assigned to the rape by her "religious" leader and condoned by her cult?
The husband in this case wasn’t Jeffs, but another teenager.
““Innocence” isn’t all that it’s cracked up to be.””
“Are you mocking the case of what was a 14 year old rape victim assigned to the rape by her “religious” leader and condoned by her cult?”
I’m just sayin.
MizSterious
May I direct your post to Greyfoxxes post #8, where he pings the anti Mormon Cabal members?
Are you still going to deny the connection? LOL
Why you would deny something that is so obvious is a mystery to me. Why are you ashamed of the connection? I think I know :)
This rape is the practice that has drawn so much heat on the cult from Utah, Arizona, Canada, and Texas. It is this 'unique' practice that everyone defends as the "religious freedom" of the cult. Jeffs conviction in this case was not because he was the man doing the rape, that man the "husband" is scheduled for trial, it is because he was the cults leader assigning this little rape ceremony.
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