02268cam a2200397 i 4500 268054984 TxGeo 20160721120000.0 070706t20082007||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2008531346 9780767927574 trade pbk. 0767927575 trade pbk. (OCoLC)191922614 TxGeo rda Jessop, Carolyn, 1968- Escape / Carolyn Jessop with Laura Palmer. Escape. 1st pbk. ed. ©2007. New York, NY : Broadway Books, [2008] ix, 426 pages, [8] pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "With a new epilogue by the author"--Cover. At 18, Carolyn Jessop was coerced into an arranged marriage with a total stranger, 32 years her senior, who already had three wives. Arranged plural marriages were part of her heritage in the radical offshoot of the Mormon Church that had settled along the Arizona-Utah border. Over the next fifteen years, Carolyn had eight children and withstood her husband's psychological abuse and the watchful eyes of his other wives. Her every move was dictated by her husband's whims--in the FLDS, a wife's compliance determines her status, and her children's, in the family. Carolyn was miserable and wanted out, but no woman had ever managed to get her children out of the FLDS. But in 2003, Carolyn chose freedom and fled with her eight children. And in 2006, her reports formed a crucial part of the case that led to the arrest of the sect's notorious leader, Warren Jeffs.--From publisher description. 20201029. Jessop, Carolyn 1968- Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Mormon women Utah Biography. Polygamy Religious aspects Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Marriage Religious aspects Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Mormon fundamentalism. Palmer, Laura. QS5