When Carolyn realized the cult’s hypocrisy she was on a mission to escape from what she felt was nothing but a prison camp. The cult also brainwashed them into thinking that the only way to heaven was to please their husband.

The cult forced women to be completely submissive to what their husbands wanted and desired. She shares and exposes what life was really like behind the closed doors of a polygamist cult.Ĭarolyn lived in an abusive, tormenting environment with Meril’s other wives. This is a truly moving factual story of a woman who showed great courage, bravery and strength of character. Carolyn became the fourth wife out of his eventual thirteen wives. His father and grandfathers were previously high rank officials. Meril had been a lifelong member of the church. At the age of eighteen, she was forced to marry a fifty year old stranger called Meril Jessop. The main base of the FLDS took place in Colorado City, Arizona where Carolyn spent most of her life.Ĭarolyn was born into a polygamist cult. Carolyn was brought up in the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (FLDS), a sect separated from and renounced by the Mormon Church. The Witness Wore Red is a gripping account of one woman’s struggle to escape the perverse embrace of religious fanaticism and sexual slavery, and a courageous story of hope and transformation.Escape, by Carolyn Jessop with Laura Palmer, is a fascinating true story. Rebecca’s subsequent testimony would reveal the horrific secrets taking place behind closed doors of the temple, sending their leaders to prison for years, and Warren Jeffs for life. The following year, Rebecca and the rest of the world watched as a team of Texas Rangers raided the Yearning for Zion Ranch, a stronghold of the FLDS. The church, however, had a way of pulling her back in-and by 2007, Rebecca had no choice but to take the witness stand against the new prophet of the FLDS in order to protect her little sisters and other young girls from being forced to marry at shockingly young ages. Finally sickened by the abuse she suffered and saw around her, she pulled off a daring escape and sought to build a new life and family. Always seeking to be an obedient Priesthood girl, in her teens she became the nineteenth wife of her people’s prophet: 85-year-old Rulon Jeffs, Warren’s father. Covered head-to-toe in strict, modest clothing, she received a rigorous education at Alta Academy, the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints’ school headed by Warren Jeffs. Rebecca Musser grew up in fear, concealing her family’s polygamous lifestyle from the “dangerous” outside world.

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