They regularly frequented the same fabric stores as I did. When I moved to Utah 31 years ago I was puzzled by the pioneer-clothed people I encountered. Make that 4 stars for content and 3 1/2 for writing (because of the repetition). The federal government must remain in this fight, for we cannot tolerate such blatant, massive abuse in this country, and no other entity has the resources to take on thousands of unapologetic fanatics.(300-301) The problem is bigger than Utah, bigger than Arizona, and even bigger than Texas, which was blindsided by the enormity of bringing the FLDS to justice. If the FLDS crimes had been put in proper perspective, outraged citizens and lawmakers would have demanded action long ago. The only difference is that Satan worshippers know without a doubt that they are going to be prosecuted to the full extent of the law if they get caught raping a virgin. I have often pondered how the public would react if the same sort of ritualistic crimes that I have investigated within the FLDS had instead centered on a congregation of Satan worshippers. It is a much bigger gang than Dan Corleone ever had in The Godfather movies. Since ten to fifteen thousand members support a religion that participates in child abuse, interstate and international sex trafficking, and other crimes in support of their religious dogma. With the FLDS, the Feds are facing one of the largest organized-crime syndicates in the history of this country. After the treasure trove of documents that the Feds recovered in the YFZ raid, why weren’t more charges forthcoming? Why were underage children returned to their abusers? That the states of Utah, Arizona, Texas and others are complicit in allowing the malevolence of the FLDS to continue and flourish makes me wonder who is really pulling their strings. He married some of his father’s wives after he died and had sex with some of the pretty younger ones before he died… This non-fiction which sometimes reads like a novel, is about the immorality in Warren Jeffs and the FLDS “Church.” That 12 year old daughters are given by their fathers to Jeffs in exchange for other young girls, that rape and abuse are part of the air they breathe, that what Jeffs says goes, even from a Texas prison cell. Warren Jeffs is a crazy batshit evil motherfucker. Other people were excommunicated for no other reason than whim.) (Another man, who was very high on the pecking order, was excommunicated because he asked Warren Jeffs to pass him a box of nails. (His crime: wanting another wife, choosing one on his own with his wife’s input, and being very low in the pecking order.) He didn’t want to leave, and Brower succeeds at keeping him and his family in their house. Sam Brower, a private investigator and Mormon who lives an hour away from Short Creek, started his professional experience with FLDS when a little guy, Ross Chatwin, was excommunicated from FLDS and was required to leave Short Creek, and leave his wife and his children. Note: There’s some bad words below, that bugs some people, so consider yourself warned. Prophet's Prey offers the gripping, behind-the-scenes account of a bizarre world from the only man who knows the full story. In Prophet's Prey, Brower implicates Jeffs in his own words, bringing to light the contents of Jeffs's personal priesthood journal, discovered in a hidden underground vault, and revealing to readers the shocking inside world of FLDS members, whose trust he earned and who showed him the staggering truth of their lives. Only one man can reveal the whole, astounding truth: Sam Brower, the private investigator who devoted years of his life to breaking open the secret practices of the FLDS and bringing Warren Jeffs and his inner circle to justice. From the private investigator who cracked open the case that led to the arrest of Warren Jeffs, the maniacal prophet of the polygamous Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints (FLDS), comes the page-turning, horrifying story of how a rogue sect used sex, money, and power disguised under a favßade of religion to further criminal activities and a madman's vision.ĭespite considerable press coverage and a lengthy trial, the full story has remained largely untold.
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