Even as his power should have been waning–when he was in jail awaiting trial for multiple charges, including rape–he was able to manipulate and control Rachel and the members of her family.Īs Rachel grew up, eventually becoming a mother to five children, she began to realize that the practices of the FLDS made her children unsafe. He dictated what she and the other members of the FLDS could wear, what they could read, what they could eat: he controlled them in every way. Based on the principles of their faith, he determined who she would marry–a man she didn’t know, when she was just eighteen–and he named all of her children. He doted on her publicly and abused her privately, often making her feel responsible for the abuse.
As a child, Jeffs was her father’s obsession.
There were years of mental and emotional abuse as well, abuse that took Jeffs years to understand and, finally, to escape. The abuse Rachel Jeffs suffered at the hands of her father, Warren, the self-proclaimed prophet of the Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints (FLDS), wasn’t solely sexual. In Breaking Free, Jeffs honestly and directly recounts her story, from a sheltered but sometimes happy childhood with her parents and siblings to the horrors of living in squalor as her father ran from the law. | Mormon fundamentalism.A little girl should never have to fear her father or feel that God has commanded she be abused, but that is exactly what happened to Rachel Jeffs. Jessop, Carolyn, 1968- | Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. And in 2006, her reports formed a crucial part of the case that led to the arrest of the sect's notorious leader, Warren Jeffs.-From publisher description. But in 2003, Carolyn chose freedom and fled with her eight children. Carolyn was miserable and wanted out, but no woman had ever managed to get her children out of the FLDS. Her every move was dictated by her husband's whims-in the FLDS, a wife's compliance determines her status, and her children's, in the family. Over the next fifteen years, Carolyn had eight children and withstood her husband's psychological abuse and the watchful eyes of his other wives. Arranged plural marriages were part of her heritage in the radical offshoot of the Mormon Church that had settled along the Arizona-Utah border. Escape / Carolyn Jessop with Laura Palmer Book Bib IDĪt 18, Carolyn Jessop was coerced into an arranged marriage with a total stranger, 32 years her senior, who already had three wives.
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