Stolen innocence : my story of growing up in a polygamous sect, becoming a teenage bride, and breaking free of Warren Jeffs / Elissa Wall with Lisa Pulitzer.
Publication details: New York : William Morrow, 2008.Edition: 1st edDescription: x, 438 p., [16] p. of plates : col. ill., ports. (chiefly col.) ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780061628016 (hc.)
- 0061628018 (hc.)
- Wall, Elissa
- Jeffs, Warren, 1955-
- Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
- Forced marriage -- United States
- Abused wives -- United States -- Biography
- Marriage -- Religious aspects -- Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
- Mormons -- United States -- Biography
- Mormon fundamentalism -- United States
- Mormon families -- United States
- Polygamy -- United States
- 364.155/53092 B 22
- HQ994 .W1871 2008
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Detailing how Jeffs forced her into an unwanted marriage at age 14, Elissa speaks candidly about the horrifying reality she faced as a young teenager in a devastating marriage to a man five years her senior. The end result of the union was a nightmare of rape and abuse that Elissa suffered at the hands of her Church-appointed husband and in the name of God. Offering an unfettered glimpse into the world of the FLDS, Elissa paints a portrait of the Church that is at once shocking and captivating, as she explains how the confines of her dangerous marriage and surroundings left her with few options. Pushed out of her home by abuse, she began living in her car to avoid the crushing realities of her situation. And yet somehow, in face of this bleak reality, she never gave up on the hope that she would some day find a way out. That way out came from a former FLDS member named Lamont Barlow, whose chance encounter with Elissa sparked a relationship that gave her the strength she needed to leave her marriage and throw off the shackles of the FLDS forever. Though Elissa won her freedom from the FLDS, she had yet to earn her victory, and here she illustrates how she used her newfound freedom to put Warren Jeffs behind bars. Looking at her crucial role in Utah's case against Jeffs, Elissa elucidates how her testimony helped convict him and how remarkably she arose from this ordeal with her hope intact and her heart filled with love.
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