The story has been told before, but 'what makes 'Stay Sweet' stand out is seeing and hearing women whose lives were controlled and nearly destroyed by Jeffs and the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints as they tell their stories.'
Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune Handcuffed and flanked by Las Vegas Metro PD Swat officers, FLDS leader Warren Jeffs appeared before Judge James M. Bixler in the Clark County Regional Justice Center on August 31, 2006, and waived an extradition hearing, agreeing to be returned to Utah to face charges related to allegedly arranging an underage marriage.It’s been almost 16 years since FLDS leader Warren Jeffs was arrested and jailed.
Dretzin said that on her first visit to the Short Creek area, she saw the FLDS women as “odd, even alien creatures. It was almost impossible to believe that a society so repressive, isolated and extreme could exist in plain sight in 21st century America.” The twin towns of Colorado City, Arizona and Hildale, Utah, where many followers of Warren Jeffs' FLDS church reside.
Women are the focus, but men aren’t ignored. Lloyd Wall recalls how his “world just collapsed” when Warren reassigned one of his wives and their children to another man. And Wallace Jeffs — whose two wives and 20 children were reassigned — says his brother “completely destroyed the bond between a father and his family. He told them that I was a son of Satan. ... And they believed it, because he bred into them what was bred into me.
One woman says she knew she wanted out, “And yet, at the same time, I believed that to leave was to seal your damnation.” They were so indoctrinated that, according to another woman, “we believed that the maturity of our girls was higher than gentiles and apostates. Age didn’t really matter so if … God thought you were worthy [to get married] at 14, it wasn’t a big deal.”
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