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Carolyn Jessop was born into a sect in Utah known as the Fundamentalist Church of the Latter Day Saints. Aged eighteen, she was forced to marry a man thirty-two years her senior, who already had three wives. for seventeen years, Carolyn lived as the property of her husband Merril, constantly watched and financially dependent. If she ever refused to submit to her husband on any matter, she was branded a troublemaker, and she and her children suffered When Warren Jeffs became leader of the 10,000-strong community in 2002, preaching that he was Jesus Christ incarnate and marrying ever-younger girls to older men within the sect, Carolyn became desperate to leave. Finally, when she discovered that her twelve-year-old daughter had spent three days at Jeffrs"s home, she knew she had to do everything in her power to flee. Escape is the shocking true story of Carolynrs"s extraordinary life in the cult - and her struggle to free herself and save her eight children from its terrifying clutches.
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