Former
Polygamous Sect Member Confronts Past
July 28, 2005 -- As a member of an
isolated polygamous sect in Arizona, Laurene Jessop says she was sexually abused
by her father, who had four wives and 56 children, and mistreated by her
husband, who was already married to Laurene's sister............
........Young girls are destined to be married off in their teen years
to older men, who keep several wives. The girls are expected to bear many
children and obey the sect's strict patriarchal rules. The FLDS split from the
mainstream Mormon church in 1890 when it disavowed polygamy.....
as if that wasn't bad enough. they had this woman's father on, interviewed him. the part i watched (i had to turn it off, it made me sick, literally) spun my head around. i couldn't believe what i was hearing. he compared his daughters to farm animals. he saw nothing wrong in touching them any way he wanted.
Quiñones spoke to Jack Cooke about his daughter's pain. At the time, the
76-year-old had not seen his daughter for 22 years, but talked to Quiñones
knowing she was in a nearby room, listening in.
He said at the time he
didn't view his fondling of his daughters as abuse. It wasn't sexual, he said,
claiming it was "on the same premise as our religion." ......
"I had the
idea that I was the big boss," he said. "I believed those children were mine."
He compared his position to a farmer with his animals. But he also said
"every intimacy which I had with them, they understood perfectly that if I did
anything they didn't like, to tell me and I would not do it."
Laurene denies
this. She says he told his daughters they "weren't normal if we didn't like it.
And, that all men do that to their daughters.".......
ok, i didn't watch the whole report, i couldn't but i don't believe this man (the father at least) is in jail. aren't incest and pedophilia crimes where there is no time limit? why are some people allowed to procreate?
be strong laurene, we have your back now
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