![]() ![]() She left the group after her father sent her away from her children for months at a time over perceived wrongs she denied committing. ![]() The prospect left her shaken and afraid, as did her father’s suggestion that she try to become pregnant with her new husband’s child on the day of the wedding. He does not have a lawyer and did not respond to NBC’s request for comment.Īt age 18, Rachel Jeffs was informed she would become the third wife of a man in the group, a breakaway sect based along the Utah-Arizona border. Warren Jeffs is serving a life prison sentence in Texas for assaulting girls he considered wives. Rachel Jeffs has penned a book about her experiences titled “Breaking Free: How I Escaped Polygamy, the FLDS Cult, and My Father, Warren Jeffs.” Other former members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, including son Roy Jeffs, have also accused him of sexually abusing them as children. ![]() Rachel Jeffs, now 33, told NBC News the abuse began when she was 8 and happened countless times, despite her mother’s attempt to intervene, before she confronted him about it in a letter at age 16. But Breaking Free is not only her storyRachel’s experiences illuminate those of her family and the countless others who remain trapped in the strange world she left behind.A shocking and mesmerizing memoir of faith, abuse, courage, and freedom, Breaking Free is an expose of religious extremism and a beacon of hope for anyone trying to overcome. SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - A daughter of polygamous sect leader Warren Jeffs said he sexually abused her for years when she was a child growing up in the secretive group, according to an interview aired Friday on “Megyn Kelly Today.” ![]()
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