Serendipity: I finished reading "Escape," by Carolyn Jessop the first week of April. Jessop, was raised in a FLDS (Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints) family; at 18 was the 4th wife of 50-year old Merrill Jessop; had 8 children in 15 years; and escaped the organization when Warren Jeffs came to power. Imagine my surprise to hear that the compound that Warren Jeffs created in Eldorado, when the pressure got to him in Arizona, was seized by law enforcement.
Polygamy: The FLDS know that multiple marriages are against the law; therefore, they have come up with the idea of "celestial" marriages for those after the first marriage. Under Warren Jeffs, marriage is required for younger and younger girls -- once a girl has a menstrual period she is eligible for marriage -- children are the ultimate goal of the FLDS.
Atrocity: It it abhorrent to me that this type of female abuse is going on in the USA in the 21st Century -- and particularly that the abuse is being done in the name of religion.
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