Stolen innocence, my story of growing up in a polygamous sect, becoming a teenage bride, and breaking free of Warren Jeffs, Elissa Wall with Lisa Pulitzer
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Stolen innocence, my story of growing up in a polygamous sect, becoming a teenage bride, and breaking free of Warren Jeffs, Elissa Wall with Lisa Pulitzer
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autobiography
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Stolen innocence
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283798233
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Elissa Wall with Lisa Pulitzer
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my story of growing up in a polygamous sect, becoming a teenage bride, and breaking free of Warren Jeffs
Summary
<p>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..
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- Abused wives -- United States -- Biography
- Marriage + Religious aspects + Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
- Mormons -- United States -- Biography
- Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
- Wall, Elissa
- Polygamy -- United States
- Forced marriage -- United States
- Jeffs, Warren, 1955-
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- Downloadable audio books
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- Abused wives -- United States -- Biography
- Marriage + Religious aspects + Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
- Mormons -- United States -- Biography
- Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
- Wall, Elissa
- Polygamy -- United States
- Forced marriage -- United States
- Jeffs, Warren, 1955-
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