I cried a lot,” she said in an interview from her home in Idaho. They bounced around from Salt Lake City to Texas to Montana. “It seemed so unfair to the wives they already had.” “I loved my relatives there and was grateful for their help, but I didn’t like the way so many men there were on the lookout for more wives,” she writes in her book. Initially, they stayed with relatives in another polygamous community known as Centennial Park, which split from the FLDS more than 30 years ago. Her first decision was enrolling her children in public school where they began the tough task of catching up on all they’d missed. But it was nowhere near enough to get a well-paid job that would support five children, the oldest of whom was 12. Her Grade 8 education was enough for her to teach Grade 3 at the church-run school. The hardest thing was figuring out how to support them,” she said in an interview. “It was really hard for me to realize the amount of responsibility, it was taking care of kids by myself. Outside, there was nothing but decisions to be made. Until she decided to leave, every decision had been made for her, including whom to marry. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Yes, it’s been tough to leave behind 47 of her siblings, the man she loved and three sister wives with whom she had shared a home and husband. Now 34, she’s convinced that the next chapters of her life will be happier ones. In her book - Breaking Free: How I Escaped Polygamy, the FLDS Cult and My Father, Warren Jeffs - Rachel Jeffs describes the abuse and the absolute control her father still wields from a Texas prison cell, where he is serving a sentence of life plus 20 years for sexually abusing a 12-year-old girl and a 15-year-old girl. First it was sexual abuse, from the time she was eight until she was 16, then years of threats if she ever divulged the secret, and cruel retribution for the few times that she did. She had had enough years of abuse at her father’s hands. Their phone calls go unanswered and messages are never returned.īut Rachel Jeffs didn’t care. Under orders from Warren Jeffs - her father and the FLDS prophet - church members can’t speak to apostates.
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