Seeking Sister Wife Becky Ryan’s dad is Tony Alamo, cult leader married to girls as young as 8
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KFGO
June 18, 2019
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The New York man charged with keeping women as sex slaves branded with his initials is one of the few cult leaders to face prosecution in the United States, but he controlled his followers in ways that are strikingly similar to those of cult figures who have been convicted.
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KATIE
June 4, 2013 – Encore
What does it take to move on when your entire life has been controlled by your faith? Meet four inspiring women who all courageously left restrictive religious sects in an attempt to break free and chart their own course for their lives.
In: 2013, Cult News, Polygamy In The News, Videos - Television
ICSA
by Gary M.
Getting Involved in a Cult Is Easy; Getting Out Never Is
For 29 years, I was associated with a Bible-based group with what I now know are the dynamics of a cult.[1] Most of the pastors from a variety of backgrounds whom I sought out soon afterward didn’t understand what it meant to leave a cult, or what my needs were.
New York Post
February 6, 2013
By SARA STEWART
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The Providence Journal
August 20, 2011
Editorial: A sect leader’s crimes
Polygamist sect leader Warren Jeff’s conviction this month on sexual-assault charges was an important, if extreme, reminder that claims of religious freedom may not be used to flout the nation’s laws.
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Paradise Recovered
Andie Redwine and Storme Wood
Augusst 9, 2011
What we think about Warren Jeffs Conviction
“If the world knew what I was doing, they would hang me from the highest tree.”
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USA Today
February 24, 2011
By Dennis Wagner
Jailed sect leader retakes legal control of church
PHOENIX — Warren Jeffs, the jailed “prophet” of a polygamist sect based in two towns on the Arizona-Utah line, has launched a purge of key followers and reassumed legal command over his church’s corporation.
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Mail Online
September 18, 2012
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
Two parents have avoided jail after admitting they let their son, 16, die in horrible agony because they chose to ‘pray away’ his burst appendix and refused to take him to the hospital.
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ABC News
November 10, 2010
By JENNIFER DOBNER Associated Press
Elizabeth Smart tells court about day of rescue
Testifying for nearly six hours in a steady voice, Elizabeth Smart told a rapt audience that she was so terrified of her abductor that on the day police found her, she told them she was someone else.
Smart took the stand at her alleged kidnapper’s trial for a second day Tuesday, telling jurors in U.S. District Court she was also too scared to speak up when a detective tried to question her in a public library months before she was finally freed.
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Biography Channel
TV SHOW: Escaping Evil: My Life in a Cult on Biography Channel…Sunday March 17 at 10PM EST
There’s a new television series on the Biography Channel/bio called Escaping Evil: My Life in a Cult.
Daily Mail Online
January 23, 2013
By Rachel Quigley
Ruby Jessop forced to marry second cousin and step-brother Haven Barlow at 14 when he was in his 20s
Now 26, she has six children aged two to ten
Arizona Attorney General claims sect is holding women against their will
In the last six months sect members were only allowed beans and water
He says police in Hildale and Colorado City are still holding the women
FindLaw
May 1, 2008
By MARCI HAMILTON
Recently, Texas authorities entered the Yearning for Zion (YFZ) Ranch, which is one of the Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints (FLDS) compounds, with a warrant based on calls from a person who alleged that she was an underage girl being subjected to physical and sexual abuse, including rape, at the Ranch. Once the authorities entered, though, they discovered pregnant underage girls, girls with more than one child, papers indicating that rampant polygamy was occurring at YFZ, and even a document involving cyanide poisoning. The authorities then intelligently made the decision that they had to remove all of the children from a situation that posed obvious and serious danger to them.
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The Salt Lake Tribune
December 4, 2009
By Pamela Manson
Psychiatrist: Smart is best witness to Mitchell’s mental state
Courts » Michael Welner says the defendant manipulates situations to his advantage.
A psychiatrist who concluded that Brian David Mitchell is competent to stand trial in the abduction of Elizabeth Smart testified Friday that interviews with lay witnesses helped him reach his determination.
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New York Times
November 6, 2009
By JAMES C. McKINLEY Jr.
Polygamist Sect Leader Convicted of Sexual Assault
ELDORADO, Tex. — One of the leaders of a polygamist sect was convicted Thursday night of sexually assaulting an under-age girl whom the church elders had assigned to him as one of his nine wives.
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Yahoo News
October 26, 2009
By MICHELLE ROBERTS, Associated Press Writer
Jury selection continues in first polygamist trial
ELDORADO, Texas – More than 150 potential jurors, including 10 women in prairie dresses and braids, crammed into a makeshift courtroom Monday as jury selection began in the first criminal trial stemming from the raid of a polygamist sect’s ranch last year.
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Press Release of Senator Reid
REID CALLS FOR FEDERAL TASK FORCE TO INVESTIGATE CHILD ABUSE AND POLYGAMY Letter to Attorney General Urges Support For Local Prosecutions
Tuesday, September 12, 2006
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