Tag: Utah

Has Mormon church LOST Utah? ‘McDonaldization’ of religion has weakened its hold over Beehive State, where just 42% of residents consider themselves members – far lower than the 61% figure touted by elders

Published January 15, 2024 By admin with Comments 0

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged decline in membership, LDS, Mormon Church, Mormons, Utah

Almost a century stands between the settlement of Mormon pioneers in Utah in 1847 and the opening of the first McDonald's restaurant in California in 1940. The two events seem world's apart, yet have somehow interwoven to bring you a…[Continue Reading...]

Former FLDS members search for 8 missing children

Published December 29, 2023 By admin with Comments 0

Categorized as Cult Crimes, Cult TV Tagged Arizona, child abuse, concerned parents, FLDS, missing children, Polygamist cult, Utah

Former members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints said they are urgently searching for their eight missing children.[Continue Reading...]

Man lifts the lid on what it was really like growing up in Warren Jeffs’ polygamous Mormon CULT – where girls could be married off as young as 14 and ‘men were living in fear’

Published December 16, 2023 By admin with Comments 0

Categorized as Cult Crimes Tagged Arizona, cult leader, FLDS, Polygamist cult, survivor story, Utah, Warren Jeffs

A man has lifted the lid on what it was really like growing up in Warren Jeffs' polygamous Mormon cult - where girls could be married off as young as 14 and 'men were living in fear.' Popular YouTube creator Peter Santanello met…[Continue Reading...]

Officials, ex-FLDS insiders applaud efforts to support those seeking to leave polygamist communities

Published December 1, 2023 By admin with Comments 0

Categorized as Cult Crimes Tagged cults, FLDS, Polygamists, polygamy, Utah

Those who choose to exit polygamous communities frequently rely upon the assistance of outsiders.“It is because of the kindness of some very good people … that my kids were able to escape,” said Jeff Black, one of the featured speakers…[Continue Reading...]

Famous ‘pray and obey’ sign at Warren Jeffs’ former Utah house has been removed

Published November 24, 2023 By admin with Comments 0

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged cult leader, FLDS, Polygamist cult, pray and obey, sign, Utah, Warren Jeffs

They chiseled out the brick letters one by one until the phrase that had long stood over their town and represented the old ways of their disgraced prophet was no more. Every part of the infamous “pray and obey” sign…[Continue Reading...]

Man who was raised in Warren Jeffs’ polygamous Mormon CULT with 28 SIBLINGS details his desperate escape from the sect – where women were treated like ‘slaves’ and members were forced into sex as minors

Published November 12, 2023 By admin with Comments 0

Categorized as Cult Crimes Tagged Arizona, child abuse, cult leader, FLDS, Polygamist cult, sexual abuse, Utah, Warren Jeffs

A man has revealed how he escaped a polygamous Mormon cult before its former leader was sentenced to life behind bars for child sex offences. Ben, based in Utah, appeared on a recent episode of the Cults to Consciousness podcast to share what…[Continue Reading...]

Woman raised in an incestuous polygamous cult lays bare the horrific abuse she faced – revealing how she was forced to marry her own COUSIN at 18

Published October 23, 2023 By admin with Comments 0

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged Kingston Klan, Kingston polygamists, survivor story, The Order, Utah

A woman who was raised in an incestuous polygamous cult has candidly laid bare the horrific abuse she endured at the hands of her own husband. Shanell Snow Derieux appeared on a recent episode of the Cults To Consciousness podcast alongside host Shelise…[Continue Reading...]

Man who was raised in an incestuous Mormon CULT opens up about the horrors that he was subjected to under the terrorizing rule of his abusive father and ‘leader’ – who fathered 163 CHILDREN with 14 WOMEN

Published October 16, 2023 By admin with Comments 0

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged abuse, Davis County Cooperative Society, Kingston Group, polygamist sect, Utah

A man who grew up in an incestuous, polygamist, Mormon cult with 14 mothers and 163 siblings has opened up about the horrors that he was subjected to by its abusive leader. Val Snow, 35, grew up in Utah in a…[Continue Reading...]

The Arizona Strip’s ‘but also’ towns: They’re beautiful, but also trying to overcome their own dark histories

Published September 13, 2023 By admin with Comments 0

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged Arizona, Colorado City, FLDS, Hildale, Polygamist cult, polygamist towns, Utah

COLORADO CITY, Ariz — Surrounded by beautiful mountains and sweeping valleys, the "twin cities" of the Arizona Strip — Colorado City, Arizona and Hildale, Utah — are dealing with the same issues as any other city: Affordable housing, water, and…[Continue Reading...]

‘It’s amazing that I even survived’: The 65th former wife of Warren Jeffs’ story of overcoming a lifetime of abuse in the FLDS church

Published September 12, 2023 By admin with Comments 0

Categorized as Cult Crimes Tagged Arizona, FLDS, personal story, Polygamist cult, Utah

COLORADO CITY, Ariz. — Growing up, Briell Decker had 13 siblings, two mothers and a father who had more than 70 wives. Now, she's living life on her own. Decker was raised in the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of…[Continue Reading...]