PHOENIX -- A polygamous sect leader already serving a 50-year federal prison sentence for orchestrating sex involving children was convicted Friday on state child abuse charges after girls were found in an unventilated trailer he was hauling through Arizona. Someone…[Continue Reading...]
I was born and raised in the FLDS faith. From the time I was a child, my days were structured around religious instruction. I spent at least four hours a day in sermons — in the morning with my family,…[Continue Reading...]
Netflix has dropped a true crime doc exploring who took over from Warren Jeffs as the leader of his controversial cult. Trust Me: The False Prophet has landed on Netflix with cult researcher Christine Marie and her husband and videographer…[Continue Reading...]
A self-proclaimed prophet’s grip on his followers began to crack after a pair of undercover filmmakers embedded themselves inside his group, quietly recording what they say was the abuse of girls inside a closed-off world. Samuel Rappylee Bateman, who led…[Continue Reading...]
In the latest "can't believe it's true" tale from Lifetime, Surviving My Father: The Rachel Jeffs Story tells the real-life drama that the daughter of polygamist cult leader Warren Jeffs had to endure before she managed to escape her father's…[Continue Reading...]
I can be whoever I want, I thought, breathing a sigh of relief. Aged 26, it was the first time that I could dress however I wanted, instead of the long-sleeve prairie dresses I’d been made to wear my whole…[Continue Reading...]
Arizona is in the midst of the worst measles outbreak it has seen in decades. Cases are mounting. As of this week, they're up to 123 in the area around the northern Arizona town of Colorado City and it's Utah…[Continue Reading...]
Inside a health clinic at the base of a craggy mountain on the Arizona-Utah border, May Keate’s phones won’t stop ringing. If the landline isn’t interrupting her, she’s silencing her cell phone to continue a conversation. It’s been like this…[Continue Reading...]
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…[Continue Reading...]
The daughter of a polygamist cult leader has shared how she discovered the disturbing truth about her father. Rebecca Lafferty has written a memoir where opens up about her story, as her dad, Dan Lafferty, continues to rot in prison…[Continue Reading...]
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