Breaking free : how I escaped polygamy, the FLDS cult and my father Warren Jeffs

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Breaking free : how I escaped polygamy, the FLDS cult and my father Warren Jeffs

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how I escaped polygamy, the FLDS cult and my father Warren Jeffs

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Rachel Jeffs

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Breaking free

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how I escaped polygamy, the Fundamentalist Church of Latter-Day Saints and my father Warren Jeffs

Creator

• trueJeffs, Rachel

Author

• trueJeffs, Rachel

Subject

• trueAustralian
• Autobiographies
• trueChild sexual abuse -- United States
• Cults -- Unuted States
• Ex-cultists -- United States -- Biography
• Forced marriage -- United States
• Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
• Jeffs, Rachel
• Abused wives -- United States -- Biography
• Mormon fundamentalism -- United States
• trueMormon women -- United States -- Biography
• Polygamy -- United States
• trueSexual abuse victims -- United States -- Biography
• Women in fundamentalist churches -- United States -- Biography
• Jeffs, Warren, 1955- -- Family
• trueAdult child sexual abuse victims -- United States -- Biography

Genre

• trueBiography
• Autobiographies

Language

eng

Summary

In this searing memoir of survival in the spirit of Stolen Innocence, the daughter of Warren Jeffs, the self-proclaimed Prophet of the FLDS Church, takes you deep inside the secretive polygamist Mormon fundamentalist cult run by her family and how she escaped it. Born into the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Rachel Jeffs was raised in a strict patriarchal culture defined by subordinate sister wives and men they must obey. No one in this radical splinter sect of the Mormon Church was more powerful or terrifying than its leader Warren Jeffs - Rachel's father. Living outside mainstream Mormonism and federal law, Jeffs arranged marriages between under-age girls and middle-aged and elderly members of his congregation. In 2006, he gained international notoriety when the FBI placed him on its Ten Most Wanted List. Though he is serving a life sentence for child sexual assault, Jeffs' iron grip on the church remains firm, and his edicts to his followers increasingly restrictive and bizarre. In Breaking Free, Rachel blows the lid off this taciturn community made famous by John Krakauer's bestselling Under the Banner of Heaven to offer a harrowing look at her life with Warren Jeffs, and the years of physical and emotional abuse she suffered. Sexually assaulted, compelled into an arranged polygamous marriage, locked away in 'houses of hiding' as punishment for perceived transgressions, and physically separated from her children, Rachel, Jeffs' first plural daughter by his second of more than fifty wives, eventually found the courage to leave the church in 2015. But Breaking Free is not only her story - Rachel's experiences illuminate those of her family and the countless others who remain trapped in the strange world she left behind. A shocking and mesmerising memoir of faith, abuse, courage, and freedom, Breaking Free is an expose of religious extremism and a beacon of hope for anyone trying to overcome personal obstacles

Biography type

autobiography

Cataloging source

ANL

Dewey number

B

Illustrations

• illustrations
• portraits
• plates

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction

Target audience

adult