Woman escapes polygamous cult where she grew up with 44 siblings and 4 mothers
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Janet Z, 32, grew up in a a break-off group of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in Utah. She tells her story over on TikTok.
A woman who grew up in a polygamous “cult” with 44 siblings and four mothers has said women were treated like “second-class citizens” and taught that “it was a privilege to marry a man.”
Janet Z, 32, was born in 1994 into a break-off group of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, the sect led by convicted sex offender Warren Jeffs.
Growing up in Salt Lake, Utah, Janet had one father, four mothers, and 44 siblings, all living in a 13-bedroom, 15-bathroom home.
Janet, who was sibling 25, said women were treated like “second-class citizens” and were taught to wear “modest clothing” that covered their entire bodies.
She said she was raised to become a plural wife – a woman in a polygamous marriage – and to enter into an arranged marriage in her early 20’s.
Janet Z, 32, was born in 1994 into a break-off group of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Image: SWNS)
“In my head, I thought life was difficult enough already. I realized I never wanted this life, but I was doing it to make my parents happy.”
At the age of 20, in 2014, Janet told her parents that she was planning to leave the family home and move to Salt Lake City to pursue a new life.
Janet said her parents were shocked, and her dad told her that she was going to “waste her life”.
“I told my mom a month before I left, I wanted to give her some time to process,” Janet said.
“A lot of my sisters had already married, so I was doing a lot of cooking, cleaning and helping raise my siblings.
“My dad was worried for me, he said he thought I was going to waste my life, and he didn’t know what was going to happen to me.”
Content retrieved from: https://www.the-express.com/news/us-news/207125/utah-flds-polygamous-cult-escape.
