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Stolen Innocence: My Story of Growing Up in a Polygamous Sect, Becoming a Teenage Bride, and Breaking Free of Warren Jeffs: My Story of Growing Up in a Polygamous Sect, Becoming a Teenage Bride, and Breaking Free of Warren Jeffs (Audio) - Community Reviews back

by Elissa Wall, Renée Raudman
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Angels With Attitude Book Reviews
Angels With Attitude Book Reviews rated it 14 years ago
This was quite an interesting story.I give a lot of credit to this young girl for sharing her story and speaking out. I have to say that after reading this story I feel as though that these leaders think they are above the law and that they can do whatever they want and get away with it. They are no...
willaful
willaful rated it 14 years ago
This is a train-wreck book -- not in the sense that it’s bad (although it’s not exactly good) but in the sense that’s it’s so horrifying, you can’t stop reading. It's a harrowing story and made me feel a little voyeuristic for finding it so compelling. But the information about life in the FDLS (the...
The Reading Shed
The Reading Shed rated it 14 years ago
This book certainly opened my eyes to the goings on in the FLDS religion... Married at 14 years old... abused by her husband... the men have more than one wife... the list is endless but thank heavens Elissa lived to tell the story and had the courage to do so
 Stacia in Progress
Stacia in Progress rated it 15 years ago
I read this book last year after seeing a little blurb about it in a magazine, and found the polygamous lifestyle fascinating to say the least. It's hard to picture how this completely hidden world works until you read about it for yourself.There has always been something about alternative lifestyl...
Affairs of M/Men
Affairs of M/Men rated it 16 years ago
I couldn't put this book down. Similar stories have been told before but this book is different from Escape by Carolyn Jessop in that Elissa was wed at 14 against her will and repeatedly raped as a child by her "husband" who was her first cousin. Although she continually tried to seek help, she was ...
The Drift Of Things
The Drift Of Things rated it 16 years ago
Elissa Wall is the brave and tormented young lady responsible for putting the evil Warren Jeffs behind bars. At the age of fourteen, Elissa was forced by Jeffs to marry her first cousin, Allen Steed. In the FLDS cult, they have what is called "placement marriage." The "prophet" assigns you a marr...
mollysmommyreads
mollysmommyreads rated it 17 years ago
I liked it.
XOX
XOX rated it 56 years ago
Great stuff on how suck the mormon cult is, and how dangerous it is that it is allow to spread to their potential victim - female children.From Wall's testimony, Mormon is a fucking sick cult, with fucked in the head momrons procreating and then go and allow their gal child to be raped by man via ma...
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