This is a simply incredible story about a woman who left the FLDS with only $20 after being threatened with her life. She now helps others wanting to leave the sect.
http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2009/feb/22/i-was-17-and-he-was-50/
Sunday, February 22, 2009
Monday, February 9, 2009
New nonprofit launched to help people from polygamous communities
http://www.sltrib.com/polygamy/ci_11640252?source=rss
Excerpt
Tewell is the driving force behind a new nonprofit organization called Holding Out HELP, designed to offer services such as housing, legal assistance and counseling.
The inspiration for the new nonprofit came after Tewell's own experience helping a family.
Tewell volunteered to open her home as a "safe house" through another organization. Twelve months later, she got a call: A woman and her four school-age children, along with her own mother, wanted out of a Salt Lake Valley-based polygamous community. Both women were plural wives.
"My husband and I looked at each other and said, 'Oh boy, are we ready to take the plunge?'" Tewell said.
Tewell admits she had preconceived notions about the people she was about to welcome into her home.
"I didn't expect them to be educated, I expected them to be in full garb with braids, the image we all have of polygamists," she said. "When they arrived, they were some of the sweetest ladies you've ever met. There was nothing weird. They were just like our family."
At that doorstep introduction, Tewell hugged one woman, told her she was safe and "she just burst out bawling."
www.holdingouthelp.org
Excerpt
Tewell is the driving force behind a new nonprofit organization called Holding Out HELP, designed to offer services such as housing, legal assistance and counseling.
The inspiration for the new nonprofit came after Tewell's own experience helping a family.
Tewell volunteered to open her home as a "safe house" through another organization. Twelve months later, she got a call: A woman and her four school-age children, along with her own mother, wanted out of a Salt Lake Valley-based polygamous community. Both women were plural wives.
"My husband and I looked at each other and said, 'Oh boy, are we ready to take the plunge?'" Tewell said.
Tewell admits she had preconceived notions about the people she was about to welcome into her home.
"I didn't expect them to be educated, I expected them to be in full garb with braids, the image we all have of polygamists," she said. "When they arrived, they were some of the sweetest ladies you've ever met. There was nothing weird. They were just like our family."
At that doorstep introduction, Tewell hugged one woman, told her she was safe and "she just burst out bawling."
www.holdingouthelp.org
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Jeffs' daughter dropped from custody dispute
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/tx/6244168.html
Excerpt
SAN ANGELO, Texas — Texas child welfare authorities have dropped the custody case involving a 17-year-old daughter of jailed polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs, saying court oversight is no longer needed.
Child Protective Services on Monday dropped their custody case on the girl, who was allegedly married to Raymond Merrill Jessop in the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints the day after she turned 15. Jessop, 37, has been indicted on charges of bigamy and sexual assault of a child.
update: after further probing, this article is about Teresa Jeffs.
Excerpt
SAN ANGELO, Texas — Texas child welfare authorities have dropped the custody case involving a 17-year-old daughter of jailed polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs, saying court oversight is no longer needed.
Child Protective Services on Monday dropped their custody case on the girl, who was allegedly married to Raymond Merrill Jessop in the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints the day after she turned 15. Jessop, 37, has been indicted on charges of bigamy and sexual assault of a child.
update: after further probing, this article is about Teresa Jeffs.
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