For in the FLDS, a wife's compliance with her husband determined how much status both she and her children held in the family. He chose when they had sex Jessop could only refuse-at her peril. He controlled the money she earned as a schoolteacher. He decided where she lived and how her children would be treated. Her every move was dictated by her husband's whims. She co-authored the book Escape, which will be turned into a movie starring Katherine Heigl, chronicling her life in the organization, her adulthood and disillusionment, and her eventual flight.Ĭoerced into marrying a stranger at 18 years old, a stranger who was 32 years her senior and already had three wives, Jessop lived a life of misery and fear. The first woman in the country to escape from the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS) and be granted full custody of her eight children, Carolyn Jessop’s story has become a model of courage and hope to people everywhere.
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