Stolen Innocence

My Story of Growing up in a Polygamous Sect, Becoming a Teenage Bride, and Breaking Free of Warren Jeffs

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Elissa Wall, Lisa Pulitzer: Stolen Innocence (2012, HarperCollins Publishers)

480 pages

English language

Published Jan. 22, 2012 by HarperCollins Publishers.

ISBN:
978-0-06-162803-0
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OCLC Number:
828204808

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In September 2007, a packed courtroom in St. George, Utah, sat hushed as Elissa Wall, the star witness against polygamous sect leader Warren Jeffs, gave captivating testimony of how Jeffs forced her to marry her first cousin at age fourteen. This harrowing and vivid account proved to be the most compelling evidence against Jeffs, showing the harsh realities of this closed community and the lengths to which Jeffs went in order to control the sect's women.Now, in this courageous memoir, Elissa Wall tells the incredible and inspirational story of how she emerged from the confines of the Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints (FLDS) and helped bring one of America's most notorious criminals to justice. Offering a child's perspective on life in the FLDS, Wall discusses her tumultuous youth, explaining how her family's turbulent past intersected with her strong will and identified her as a girl who needed to be …

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Subjects

  • Mormons, biography
  • Women, united states, biography
  • Fundamentalist church of jesus christ of latter day saints
  • Polygamy
  • Forced marriage
  • Marriage, religious aspects, mormon church
  • Abused wives