The Witness Wore Red: The 19th Wife Who Brought Polygamous Cult Leaders to Justice.
Rebecca Musser & M. Bridget Cook
ISBN: 9781455527854
Read November 18, 2013
Nonfiction: Memoir of Rebecca Musser's escape from the FLDS and subsequent assistance with the Yearning for Zion Ranch raid, and the trials of the pedophilia and child abuse of the church leaders. Includes short black and white picture segment.
Powerful addition to the stories of other women who daringly escaped from the FLDS as Warren Jeffs took his father's death as the opportunity to plunge the already secretive and enabling FLDS society further into abuses and illegal behaviors.
Also a powerful reminder of the ability of humans to contort, manipulate, and "train" young, gullible, or needy people into doing things that otherwise would seem impossible breaches of basic social contracts. Brainwashing may not be the correct term any more, but it's alive and well in communities like that. Manipulative actions aren't limited to charismatic sociopathic child abusers, and woe betide us all if we don't learn our lessons while we can, and spot abusers before they can harm so many others around them.
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