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. Carolyn Jessop is a former Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints member who wrote Escape, an autobiographical account of her upbr. But in 2003, Carolyn chose freedom and fled with her eight children. You might not want to believe that such a strange world exists in our own. Carolyn was miserable and wanted out, but no woman had ever managed to get her children out of the FLDS. Escape is the shocking true story of Carolyn Jessop's struggle to leave the polygamist cult in which she was raised. 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. Carolyn Jessop is a former Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints member who wrote Escape, an autobiographical account of her upbringing in the polygamist sect and later flight from that community. Over the next fifteen years, Carolyn had eight children and withstood her husband's psychological abuse and the watchful eyes of his other wives. Escape exposes a world that is tantamount to a prison camp, created by religious fanatics. Arranged plural marriages were part of her heritage in the radical offshoot of the Mormon Church that had settled along the Arizona-Utah border. The dramatic first-person account of life inside an ultra-fundamentalist American religious sect. 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. Carolyn Jessop Large Paperback Considerable wear.

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