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Stolen Innocence: Elissa Wall on Growing up FLDS (Part 1)

Published: Nov. 28, 2022, 9 a.m.

This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Many people became aware of the horrors taking place within the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (if you were really in touch with God s/he\\u2019d have given you a better name) after watching Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey on Netflix. Our guest on today\\u2019s show, Elissa Wall, had to live through them.\\xa0

Born into a polygamous family within Salt Lake City, Utah\\u2019s FLDS\\u2014which is how we\\u2019ll be referring to it from here on out\\u2014 Wall was only 14 when church leaders orchestrated a marriage between the child and her 19-year-old cousin, Allen Steed. Unfortunately, such marriages were insanely frequent within the church, with girls as young as 12-years-old being groomed and forced to marry older men. Much of this is thanks to human trash can Warren Jeffs, president and prophet of the FLDS, who can also add convicted child rapist to his list of titles. At one point, Jeffs had 78 \\u201cwives,\\u201d 24 of whom were children. Now, he\\u2019s serving life in prison, with no small help from Elissa Wall.\\xa0

Wall\\u2019s autobiography is titled, Stolen Innocence: My Story of Growing Up in a Polygamous Sect, Becoming a Teenage Bride, and Breaking Free of Warren Jeffs. The book became a New York Times bestseller and is a fascinating but heart wrenching look into the truly fucked up world of Warren Jeffs.\\xa0

Stay tuned for part 2 on Thursday.\\xa0

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