拥有79名妻子,60个孩子的基本教义派耶稣基督后期圣徒教会(Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints,FLDS)先知沃伦•杰弗斯已经因为对幼女进行性侵犯而被判处终身监禁。不过尽管杰弗斯的时代已经结束,仍然在现代社会遵循一夫多妻制的FLDS教会却仍然存在。 在美剧《Lie To Me》和《Criminal Minds》中都根据这个看似“天...
Wayman has not seen her own husband in nearly three years. She is repenting from afar for sins that include “jealousy.” She told the FBI she believes all this shuffling of women and children is “because Warren and the FLDS church leaders wanted to exercise power, control and fear over ...
Jones preached a kind of “apostolic socialism or divine socialism,”28wherein he required his believers to sign over their homes, savings, social security checks, and paychecks to his church. “It was harder to quit the church after you went communal. Jones promised members lifetime care in ...
Since fundamentalist Mormons broke away from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) in the 1920s,8the FLDS has been one of the larger and more reclusive organizations because of their isolation on the remote Arizona Strip in Short Creek, high birth rates, and the practic...