Nurse who fled 1,500-person polygamous cult speaks out about everything she experienced growing up
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Angela Johnson revealed what her childhood in the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS) was really like
A nurse has told how she managed to flee a notorious polygamous cult which makes members completely ‘isolated from the outside world’.
Angela Johnson, 38, followed in the footsteps of four generations of her family and was raised as part of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS0.
People were given a chilling insight into what life was like for those who were a part of the breakaway Mormon sect, formerly led by Warren Jeffs, in a chilling 2015 Netflix series.
In the four-part true crime documentary, titled Keep Sweet: Pray & Obey, a string of former members revealed how they were indoctrinated by Jeffs, 69, and subjected to rape, abuse, forced marriage, and unwanted pregnancies.
Angela has now opened up about her own harrowing experience in the cult, explaining that those involved with the 1,500-strong polygamous group were forced to offer ‘complete obedience to whatever the church asked’.
Jeffs – who is said to have had 78 wives, 24 of whom were underage – was sentenced to life in prison after being found guilty of two counts of sexual assault against a child in 2011.
Another 12 men were also charged with child abuse in wake of a raid on the cult leader’s FLDS ranch in West Texas back in 2008.
Angela explained that polygamy ‘was one of the main parts of the religion’, and that men were at the top of the pecking order, while women were ‘very oppressed and had to obey everything’.
“My dad didn’t have multiple wives, but I grew up with polygamy all around me,” she explained. “One relative had 24 wives, it was a very common practice.
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