I escaped a deadly polygamous cult with my nine kids – others are still trapped
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On 31 December 1999, Pamela Jones watched TV while she waited to see if the world would end. She had been born into a cult based in Mexico, and ever since she was a child, Jones had been taught that the millennium would lead to an apocalypse.
As far back as the 1980s, leaders of her breakaway Mormon sect – the Church of the Firstborn of the Fulness of Time – had been preparing for this night. “They were dehydrating eggs and storing them,” she recalls. “Up in caves in the mountains, they had barrels of corn and wheat, because their grandpa had a revelation that the United States was going to be destroyed.”
California would sink under the ocean and surviving Americans would travel south, where they would be fed and become members of the cult.
Jones was 34. She didn’t see her husband so often, as he had five other wives, and normally he railed against television, but that night he came to watch too.
Midnight came and went. The US wasn’t flooded. Nobody was coming. Her husband was angry. “He took the satellite dish down and tried to break it. He said: ‘This is vanity and it’s evil’.”
Looking back, Jones isn’t sure if she really believed the apocalypse was going to happen. “I was so brainwashed,” she says, but after decades of misogynist abuse by the cult – which included sometimes being beaten or kept hungry, as well as being almost permanently pregnant – she had begun to question the church and its teachings.
Despite fears of being killed if she rebelled, the false doomsday premonition made her more certain. Months later, she escaped with her nine children.
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