Escape
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The dramatic first-person account of life inside an ultra-fundamentalist American religious sect, and one woman’s courageous flight to freedom with her eight children.
When she was eighteen years ancient, Carolyn Jessop was coerced into an arranged marriage with a total weirder: a man thirty-two years her senior. Merril Jessop already had three wives. But arranged plural marriages were an vital part of Carolyn’s heritage: She was born into and raised in the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS), the radical offshoot of the Mormon Church that had settled in tiny communities along the Arizona-Utah border. Over the next fifteen years, Carolyn had eight children and withstood her spouse’s psychological abuse and the watchful eyes of his additional wives who were locked in a constant battle for supremacy.
Carolyn’s every go was dictated by her spouse’s whims. He chose where she lived and how her children would be treated. He controlled the money she earned as a school teacher. He chose when they had sex; Carolyn could only refuse—at her peril. For in the FLDS, a wife’s compliance with her spouse determined how much status both she and her children held in the family tree. Carolyn was miserable for years and wanted out, but she knew that if she tried to place and got caught, her children would be taken away from her. No woman in the country had ever escaped from the FLDS and managed to get her children out, too. But in 2003, Carolyn chose freedom over dread and fled her home with her eight children. She had $20 to her name.
Escape exposes a world tantamount to a prison camp, made by religious fanatics who, in the name of God, deprive their followers the right to make choices, force women to be really subservient to men, and brainwash children in church-run schools. Against this background, Carolyn Jessop’s flight takes on an extraordinary, inspiring power. Not only did she manage a daring escape from a brutal environment, she became the first woman ever granted full custody of her children in a contested suit involving the FLDS. And in 2006, her reports to the Utah attorney all-purpose on church abuses formed a crucial part of the case that led to the arrest of their notorious leader, Warren Jeffs.
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I chose to order this from the Amazon site but from a different vendor. A few days later I received an email that since a previous customer ‘claimed’ to have not gotten his/her merchandise that the vendor’s privileges had been cancelled and that I was out most of my $. Amazon did refund just over 1/3 of my buy fee. I am now very disappointed and reluctant to order from the Amazon site …..
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Rumor has it that the leader place together a conglomeration of hallucination, exaggeration, revenge, and called it ESCAPE. From what? Why? Perhaps it gets more sales (don’t buy it). There are too many conflicting tales and tales which led me to say it should be in fiction.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
I see Carolyn’s come out with an update, but like the rest of the book, she filled it with outright lies & yucky distortions. She wants to scare us about the children’s diet of “carbohydrates & small protein,” yet “forgets” to tell us that their diet was primarily vegetarian (with home-grown fruits & vegetables), supplemented by dairy products supplied by their own dairy, as well as eggs & chickens from their poultry farm. This is the kind of diet our own ancestors followed & one that nutritionists & doctors would like us to follow. She also conveniently “forgets” to tell us just how sick the children got once they were place on the CPS-approved & -supplied diet of junk food. Later, she tries to clarify away the fact that CPS could not verify all of her wild claims of widespread physical abuse of the women & children. The reason CPS didn’t find any evidence of widespread physical abuse is there wasn’t any to start with. No bruises, cuts, scrapes, secondary trauma, head trauma, scars, etc were establish on the children or the women. She then states at one point that she was not allowed access to the children, but then states how the children told her 2 daughters they looked “scarey.” Unless CPS was allowing her unfettered access to children she wasn’t related to in foster care (which is against the law, btw), the only place she could have had access to them was at the concentration camps set up by CPS. She & others were reported to have been there by media at the time.
She has no proof of any of her wild claims. Her wildest allegation, that of “waterboarding,” wasn’t even mentioned in her book & she never said anything about it until reports of waterboarding at Abu Gharib & Gitmo were made on the national news. How “convenient” of her to “remember” this happening while she was in the FLDS.
Save your money. Don’t buy this book.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
This book is about an offshoot of the Mormon church FLDS and how the leader was married at the age of 18 with a 52 year ancient man with 3 additional wife’s and daughters who attended the authors class.
the Prophet called uncle Ben has a vision and gets Carolyn married to a man who was her dads business partner and was having business problems. Obviously Carolyn is miserable and eventually runs away with her 8 children. Carolyn father also has multiple wife’s and his brother leaves the sect so he can marry his fathers wife’s daughter lacking the prophets permission
She describes the politics of living with the additional wife’s and step children the problems they face. their is no divorce as they will be together in heaven also
The missing part is the perspective of the spouse
I can also imagine the poor spouse stuck with 4 wife’s and maybe more than 10 mother in laws with dozens of children. How hard it might be support 25 + kids and the pressures of keeping 4 wife’s pleased and dealing with so many mother in laws. we need a chapter on that also
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Not sure what you want. I just ordered the book and it was delivered as I expected. I read it and passed it on to a name else interested in the theme.
What else do you want.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5