Her story strikes a common theme among those who have left the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, a Mormon offshoot that disavowed the mainstream church in 1890 when it abandoned polygamy as a pathway to the highest level of heaven. Polygamy cases poses 'logistical nightmare'.State a danger to kids, sect's mothers say.It was a marriage to her first cousin Philip that prompted Jessop to run. She finds particular solace in rescuing women and children, some of whom are child brides like she was. Today, Jessop, 38, escapes by freeing others trapped unwillingly in polygamist sects: 84 to date. It was a need to protect her daughter that finally convinced her there was more to life, she said. Watch Jessop explain how running was an education » "When you're running for your life, you can't afford to get to the point you cannot run," she said. She occasionally drank alcohol - she liked tequila best - but preferred to use cocaine because it kept her alert. Jessop, then 17, began hitchhiking across the country, almost killed herself with cocaine, worked as a topless dancer and eventually became pregnant, she said.įearing that church members would hunt her down, she looked over her shoulder for five years, she said. Worst of all, she knew she was damned to hell, Jessop said. Her parents and siblings thought she was wicked. Once she fled the fundamentalist Mormon sect, she was an apostate. "I didn't have to hurt so bad because I missed everything I knew."
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