FLDS Forced Marriages

donnA · May 16, 2008

Still doubt they are marrying little girls off to dirty old men

But one of the darkest secrets of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints unfolds at a seedy roadside motel in the remote Nevada desert, where underage girls — some as young as 14 — are allegedly forced through hasty and secret wedding ceremonies.
Elissa Wall says she was one such 14-year-old who was taken to the motel and plunged into wedlock with no choice but to accept and obey the command of Jeffs.
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She says her wedding was the culmination of a traumatic experience that began when church leaders removed her, her mom and sisters from their family and reassigned them to another man — Fred Jessop.
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wife swapping, if you know the right person, have enough money or are related to the leader, you can have any wife even someone elses. Sounds like they believe these are real marriages doesn't it.

Then, just months after her eighth-grade graduation, Jessop told her she'd be married in a week.
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http://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=4863899&page=1

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