With the Eldorado skyline still in one piece, the officials proceed to discover what they had suspected all along: boxes of recordings and documents against Jeffs, who was already behind bars for accomplice to rape in an Utah prison. And there are many.Īs close-up shots of Yearning for Zion Ranch’s (YZR) temple-search start to appear-frankly, just a bait for the most vulnerable-you see a man sitting on his knees, vehemently praying that the sky above splits into two when the police officers barge in to ‘violate’ his master (one has to live that life, that reality to comprehend religious fanaticism). Additionally, Michelle Gurevich’s ‘Feel More’ as a running theme takes a life of its own a cathartic background score for moments of utter depravity. With utmost sensitivity, the director balances the unforgivable nature of his crimes and audacious teachings with cross-law-enforcement-operation clips and media coverage of the case, which frankly softens it for the viewers who, in all probability, needed it during the climax. The culprit himself had 72 wives, 24 of them were underage and the youngest one being just 12. Sharing similar stories of complete mind-and-body control are some of Jeffs’ own half-brothers, Wallace Jeffs mentions there are 62 of them that “his family is aware of.” Wall sisters, on the other hand, fought the monster head-on and ultimately put him behind bars for life with an additional 20 years for sexually assaulting a child.Īs uncomfortable as this may sound, when his father had died, Jeffs married some of his mothers and shipped off the younger ones to older men either for their loyalty or favors.
“I didn't even know who was the President of America (sic),” reveals Alicia Rohbock, who took Jeffs’ words as the gospel truth even when he had ripped her family apart: geographically and otherwise.
In Rachel Dretzin’s (‘Who Killed Malcolm X’) four-part docuseries, the straight-shooting filmmaker claims-and substantiates-the harsh treatment of the sect’s disciples, especially women and young children. Unlike Joseph Smith’s religion of Mormonism, who shunned polygamy sometime in the 1800s, the FLDS is an outrageously predatory offshoot of Smith’s doctrines.
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The homemade videos and audio recordings (that ultimate brought around ‘so called’ Prophet Warren Jeffs’ downfall in court) was a cunningly designed brainwashing mechanism that first gave his abusive father Rulon Jeffs’ FLDS Church-Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, a far-right wing of the Church of Mormons that practises polygamy even to this day-a free reign over his unsuspecting subjects for decades, before transferring that power over to his wicked son Warren following his death in 2002. If Afterlife exists, isn't this the most logically acceptable version of what eternal bliss would look like? “But they did not talk to anyone and dressed like Laura Ingalls,” jokes the cult’s Texan neighbour. Young children dressed immaculately in shades of pastel, buttoned-up dresses, moving prettily in circles, chanting His name on a lush prairie. REVIEW: For a split second, I believed in God and mistook what I was seeing on screen for actual Heaven. A systematic suppression of the all-surrendering so severe that even after a decade, the survivors oscillate between what they know and what they deserved to know. Believe me when I say convicted cult leader and pedophile Warren Jeffs almost got away with it. STORY: Sermons in soft television-trained Godly voice, absolute authority over families under the guise of being their ‘Prophet’, all the while abusing women and children without a hint of opposition from his polygamous followers.
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