The daughter of Polygamous Sect Leader, Warren Jeffs, says he sexually abused her for years
Warren Jeffs is serving a life prison sentence in Texas for assaulting girls he considered wives. He does not have a lawyer and did not respond to NBC's request for comment.
At age 18, Rachel Jeffs was informed she would become the third wife of a man in the group, a breakaway sect based along the Utah-Arizona border. The prospect left her shaken and afraid, as did her father's suggestion that she try to become pregnant with her new husband's child on the day of the wedding.
She left the group after her father sent her away from her children for months at a time over perceived wrongs she denied committing.
"I felt that he was punishing me for what he did to me. Like he was trying to break me and make me feel like I was worse than him," she said. "And I wouldn't let myself go there. I knew he had done wrong, and I didn't want to let him break me."
Comment: Ah yes, the 'religious' man with all of the answers and solutions to other people's problems. A little humility would go a long way for some people, but then some people are literally brain-damaged, and yet appear, to all intents and purposes, as normal, until they have you under their spell that is. Sounds a lot like most members of Congress and CIA and FBI senior officials.