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

Name: 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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ISBN: 9780061734960

ISBN-10: 0061734969

ISBN-13: 9780061734960

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Authors: Elissa Wall, Lisa Pulitzer

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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 that Jeffs went to in order to control the women in it. Now, in this courageous memoir, Elissa Wall tells her incredible and inspirational story of her time in the Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints (FLDS), detailing how she emerged from its confines to help bring one of America's most…

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List price: $7.99
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 2/24/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 464
Size: 4.19" wide x 6.75" long x 1.19" tall
Weight: 0.506
Language: English

Elissa Wall is a former member of The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (the FLDS) who was forced into marriage at age fourteen. She left the FLDS at age eighteen and she currently resides in the US with her two children and her husband, Lamont.

Lisa Pulitzeres ex-corresponsal deThe New York Timesy autora de cinco libros sobre auténticos crímenes, entre ellosFatal RomanceyMurder in Paradise.