CALVIN has 44 siblings and five parents. The 34-year-old grew up in the FLDS and within this religion, the family practiced polygamy. Growing up in Utah, Calvin enjoyed having a large family but started to step out of the religion…[Continue Reading...]
SALT LAKE CITY — A Utah father and member of the Kingston polygamous clan fought a Salt Lake district court’s decision to prohibit him from encouraging his children to adopt his religion’s teachings. The Utah Supreme Court ruled in his…[Continue Reading...]
KINGSTON, Piute County — A nephew of imprisoned cult leader Warren Jeffs is accused of taking his sister's young daughter and not allowing her to be returned to her biological parents. Heber Pearson Jeffs, 54, of Kingston, Piute County, was…[Continue Reading...]
Samuel Bateman, the self-anointed "prophet" of a polygamous FLDS cult, was arrested in August after three young girls were found hidden in a cargo trailer that law enforcement said he was towing on a highway in Flagstaff, Arizona — over…[Continue Reading...]
Watch this video featuring former cult victim Flora Jessop, an activist helping polygamist children that are sex trafficking victims.[Continue Reading...]
Wendell Jeffson, the 22-year-old son of the infamous cult leader Warren Jeffs, told Insider that the up-and-coming FLDS leader being accused of keeping 20 wives — most of them under 15 — "took a page out of my dad's playbook."…[Continue Reading...]
PHOENIX — Going through old photos, Flora Jessop remembers what it was like growing up in a polygamist cult. "I have 28 brothers and sisters," Jessop said. "My dad was married to my mom and her little sister." From 1969…[Continue Reading...]
SPOKANE, Wash – Eight girls who ran away from group homes in Arizona in the midst of a federal investigation were found hiding out in an Airbnb in Spokane. The girls were found with a woman named Moretta Rose Johnson,…[Continue Reading...]
In a new book, singer-songwriter Jessica Willis Fisher reveals what viewers of TLC’s wholesome “The Willis Family” reality show didn’t see: a household run by a strict and abusive father. Her memoir, “Unspeakable: Surviving My Childhood and Finding My Voice,”…[Continue Reading...]
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