Stolen Innocence: My Story of Growing Up in a Polygamous Sect, Becoming a Teenage Bride, and Breaking Free of Warren Jeffs Free Audiobook Download by Lisa Pulitzer,Elissa Wall


Lisa Pulitzer shares her story of growing up with a polygamous sect, becoming a teenage bride and breaking free of Warren Jeffs. The memoir is narrated by Renée Raudman. Jeffs started raping her when she was 12 years old and continued until she was 18 years old. Pulitzer describes the violence that required her to relocate to different homes throughout Southern Utah to escape him. She also discusses the trials that took place after he was convicted.

The book tells the story of the author, Elissa Wall, and her escape from a polygamous sect. It starts with how she was born into a polygamous sect and how she was groomed to be a teenage bride. She discusses her life in the sect and her experience with polygamy as a child. The story continues with her escape from Warren Jeffs and how he hunted for her for years after.

The author of this book tells the story of a life living in an extreme religious sect. She grew up in a polygamous family where her mother had five husbands, and Elissa was married off to one of her mother's other husbands at just 14 years old. After she escaped from the sect, she found out that her husband was on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted List for being involved in child sexual abuse. This book is an interesting, eye-opening read about a world that most people don't even know exists. I recommend it to those who want to be intrigued by a different culture and way of life.

A woman shares her story of growing up in a polygamous sect and becoming a teenager bride. She tells of the horrific details of her abuse by Warren Jeffs, the leader of the sect, as well as the continual abuse she witnessed towards other women. After escaping Jeffs, she was able to get justice for herself and others.

Elissa Wall was born into a polygamous sect of the FLDS Church in Colorado City, AZ. She was married at the age of 14 to her first cousin Robert Wall in a sacred ceremony officiated by their father, and later to her uncle Merrill Jessop after Elissa became pregnant with his child. Elissa Wall has now written an autobiography that details her abusive childhood in polygamous group and how she escaped.

This is the riveting true story of Elissa Wall, a young woman who was raised in the fundamentalist Mormon community of Colorado City, Arizona, an isolated rural town populated by die-hard believers of polygamous sect leader Warren Jeffs. Wall was forced to marry her first cousin when she was just fourteen years old; driven from the only home she had ever known at the behest of Warren Jeffs after he married her sister to her nineteen-year-old cousin; and then banished from her beloved twin daughters for more than five years. But Elissa's story goes on beyond the borders of this small community--it is also one that encompasses life in today's America, where it seems everyone wants to be famous, everyone wants to be rich, and many are willing to do just about anything to get there--and it reaches into international media and powerful corporate boardrooms.

Published Date 2008-06-02
Duration 16 hours 0 minutes
Author Lisa Pulitzer, Elissa Wall
Narrated Renée Raudman
Reviews
(43 Reviews)
Abridged No
Is It Free? 30-days Free
Category Biography & Memoir
Parent Category Women, Memoir

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