Helen Mar Kimball was tricked and “groomed” by her own parents and Joey Smith to give in to Smiths sexual demands at age 14....
“Van Wagoner recounts the story of how the 37-year-old Smith attempted to persuade 15-year-old Helen Mar Kimball (the daughter of Heber C. Kimball) to be sealed to him as his wife. The young Kimball stated that Smith told her, “If you will take this step, it will insure your eternal salvation and exaltation and that of your father’s household and all of your kindred” (p.293).
Helen would later regret that she acquiesced to Smith’s proposal. “I would never have been sealed to Joseph had I known it was anything more than ceremony. I was young and they deceived me by saying the salvation of our whole family depended on it” (p.294).
Mormon historian Richard Van Wagoner, “Sidney Rigdon, Portrait of Religious Excess”)
source: http://www.mrm.org/amorous-advances
“Amorous Advances by the Mormon Prophet” (By Bill McKeever)
Every time the newsies or TV readers state the victim was 15 - that is incorrect. She had the baby at 15. The rape occurred when she was 14.
Victims: Age 12 and age 14