This is Jeffs’ father and predecessor as cult leader, Rulon, with two of several teenaged wives he took when he was in his 70s/80s. According to Carolyn Jessop, whose husband Merrill had several daughters married to Rulon, many of Rulon’s wives were virgins when he died due to his age and health, and all of them married Warren when Rulon died.
I was on a grand jury once and we heard an unfortunate number of sexual abuse cases, ranging from teens to little-more-than-toddlers. No, it’s not pretty. 
Oh, Dear God,
Please guide the prophet to choose for me a husband so old he can’t get it up, and young enough to live another fifteen years. By then I’ll be nearly 30 and chances are good my second husband will be only twice my age.
And they say the results of this inner-marrying is also making many babies be born deformed and with rare birth defects. The stories of all the unmarked baby graves in these communities is scary, also the stories of the children with one particular VERY RARE genetic disease (can’t remember the name) that is like one in a million in the main-stream, but a couple children with it per block in these communities.
I thought there was quite a lot of forking going on, with 125 kids and such…
Gee, even Hand Job was only jerking off ten times a day and when it did in the waiting room of the Navy Head Shrinker at Da Nang he was given a section 8.
Fumarase deficiency, which according to the Wikipedia article is also known as “Polygamist Down’s”.
The matching dresses…well, they do look happy.
Wouldn’t you be? The man’s rich, powerful, and a silver fox!
And now he’s in a coma.
Hmm, five people in the DeathPool are probably waiting anxiously to see if he comes out of it!
Shoot, I googled and all the coma reports are from last August.
I’m pretty sure the Bible is full of examples of God ordering people to hurt one another.
Oops. My apologies. It was at the top of the Gawker link. Thus, I concluded it was even newer news.
Nope, August.
How happy are they really; being married to someone whose as old as their grandfather AND one of their cousins to boot, being taught that your purpose is to be a baby vending machine, poorly educated, and wearing dresses that Anne of Green Gables would think are ugly?
Do they get to even read Anne of Green Gables or is that forbidden , since Anne goes to Queen’s College?
I wouldn’t be happy, and I am sure most doper women wouldn’t be happy either. No fucking way would I want that life for my daughter
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Carolyn Jessop talked about that in her memoir, Escape. She was a grade school teacher at the same school where Warren Jeffs taught and said when Rulon was alive the church was strict about what kids could read but not insanely strict- basically on par with most conservative religious schools: Little House on the Prairie and Black Beauty fine, Judy Blume no, things in-between on a sort of case by case basis, but there weren’t book-nazis and Jessop herself (who grew up FLDS but had lived in Salt Lake City as a child) had a large children’s literature collection.
Jeffs did away with ALL children’s books. They were allowed to read textbooks he chose and his sermons and writings (and you know how 8 year olds love to read sermons). He also declared most toys to be sinful, and in one of his more famous rulings the color red was forbidden and removed from all crayon packs (which most kids didn’t have anyway).
I’ve been meaning to read Escape - but I have the dreadful suspicion that I would want to punch someone after reading it.
I wasn’t much for church at 8. I was thinking that I’d rather be at Grandma’s than sit and be lectured to.
Sheesh. You know, in Terry Pratchett’s book Monstrous Regiment, an insane god makes all sorts of proclamations about what is sinful and forbidden. This god also declares that a color is sinful, but I believe the color is blue. When I read the book, I had a good laugh at the thought that a color was considered sinful.
I ain’t laughing now.
Here’s a little article that appeared in the local paper about Jeffs:
http://www.argusleader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2012301090021
For those not wishing to click the link. Apparently he’s sending letters and boxes of books to Butte County, South Dakota even though he has no vested interest in the county. His group does have a compound in Custer County though and they are also receiving letters and books. The article doesn’t elaborate on what the letters say though.
An excellent book.
Go for it. It does have a happy ending, she gets out for good with most of her kids.