Forced to marry a 50-year-old with six wives when just 18

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By CAROLYN JESSOP
Last updated at 21:16pm on 12th April 2008

... My father didn't want me to attend an ordinary school and so I lived on an FLDS compound ...

Sex was something a husband was to teach his wife. There were some women in FLDS who married and still believed that babies came from kissing ...

I packed my eight children into our van and drove away from the compound, even though my 12-year-old Betty was screaming: "Mother, you're stealing us. Uncle Warren will come and get us. We don't belong to you, we belong to the prophet" ...

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[ZombieHorde]

1. FLDS compound ...

Stories that contain this phrase are usually not very good.

[Jim__]

2. Why do young girls have to marry old men?

Since it's a relatively small sect, and polygamous, I would expect there to be a shortage of young girls for the young men. Do the old men force the young men to wait 'til they're old to marry?

[Pale Blue Dot]

3. It's not about logic. It's about the men's sexual needs.

It's a disgusting abuse of power.

[MountainLaurel]

4. The young men are kicked out of the community

Driven to the nearest town (since most of these compounds are in the middle of BFE) and dropped off with no money and food.

[Warpy]

5. Google "Lost boys"

The sect deals with randy young men by dumping them next to a road out in the desert.

Males who want to stay in the fold learn the art of discreet self abuse until they're well into their 30s and enough old goats have died off to allow them to marry.