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Stolen Innocence: My Story of Growing Up in a Polygamous Sect, Becoming a Teenage Bride, and Breaking Free of Warren Jeffs
 

Stolen Innocence: My Story of Growing Up in a Polygamous Sect, Becoming a Teenage Bride, and Breaking Free of Warren Jeffs

by Elissa Wall, Lisa Pulitzer

In September 2007, a packed courtroom in St. George, Utah, sat hushed as Elissa Wall, the star witness against polygamous sect leader Warren Jeffs, gave captivating testimony of how Jeffs forced her to marry her first cousin at age fourteen. This harrowing and vivid account proved to be the most compelling evidence against Jeffs, showing the harsh realities of this closed community and... (read more)

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  • Rated 4 stars

“Another take on the polygamist situation with the FLDS. I found this book even more enlightening than Escape - mainly because Elissa's story is the one that ultimately put Warren Jeffs in jail. I've been very interested in understanding more about their community and though both these books are by women who left, I feel that they are fairly kind to many of the members of their former communities. Though it does give you more of a sense of what has gone terribly wrong inside their insular...”

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  • Lady Ann

    lady ann said:

    “I can't put this book down and it is amazing how her story matches the story from The Escape by Carolyn Jessop.
    I imagine these two knew each other. Fastinating reading but so sad but I giver them both credit for fighting for what is right. The courts need to use their words as evidence in the case against the cult. Those children need to be removed from that sick cult. The mothers need help and they should not have their children until they are out of the cult.”

    posted Sunday, June 15 2008
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