16yo forced to marry Utah teen by a cult, but the ‘marriage’ didn’t last. But fate had other plans
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Nineteen years after the end of Warren Jeffs’ cult, something good finally came out of it. A couple of teens who were born into the cult entered a fixed marriage, only to later reconnect after both escaped. Now they’re a shining example that there’s life after cultism.
In 2003, Angela Johnson was a 16-year-old teenager — a little rebellious toward authority, eager to learn more about life, and, much like everyone else at the time, a Britney Spears fan. But unlike most of her peers, she had to do all this in secret because she was in a cult — the notorious Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, to be exact.
At that time, the cult was under the firm control of Warren Jeffs. Although Angela revealed to People that she didn’t have direct interactions with him, the cult was very much built in his image. Polygamy was expected, and education was discouraged for young girls. Angela herself wasn’t expected to get past the 10th grade — and that was the case for most girls born into the cult.
What Angela was “born for” was getting a husband. And the cult chose Cade Johnson, 19, for her. By the time the two were forced to marry, Jeffs had already risen into the top 10 of the FBI’s Most Wanted List — usually reserved for some of the most sadistic minds in American history. Angela and Cade exchanged vows in a laundromat because, at that time, the ceremony wasn’t allowed to take place in a church. A red flag in itself — and a fact about their marriage that Angela struggles to fathom even to this day.
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