WARREN Jeffs was convicted of two felony counts of child sexual assault in 2011, and sentenced to life plus 20 years. Before he landed behind bars, he welcomed over 60 children. Who are Warren Jeffs’ children? Warren Jeffs is known as a polygamist religious leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints […]
WARREN Jeffs was convicted of two felony counts of child sexual assault in 2011, and sentenced to life plus 20 years.
Before he landed behind bars, he welcomed over 60 children.
Warren Jeffs is known as a polygamist religious leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS).
Prior to his imprisonment, he had as many as 80 wives, many of whom were underage, and fathered more than 60 children, according to CNN.
While some of his children have come forward, many have yet to be identified.
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Jeffs’ children have lived quiet lives over the years, though some have spoken out about their childhood.
Among those who have spoken out is Roy Jeffs, who sat down with CNN in 2016 to explain why he left his father’s church.
“I left on my own,” he told the media outlet.
“When I first came out, it was nice to feel that way. … I remember standing there, just staring at myself in the mirror, just in shock forever, just sitting there like, ‘Oh my God, I can choose.’ But at the same time … because I was so used to being told ‘You can do this, you can’t do this’ … I wanted somebody to tell me what to do.
“It was terrifying,” he continued.
Roy was born in the isolated fundamentalist Mormon community in Short Creek, along the Arizona-Utah state line and had to live under the “strict rule of his father,” CNN notes.
At the time, Roy was living in an apartment 250 miles west of Salt Lake City with his brother-in-law.
The year prior, Roy and his sister Becky Jeffs appeared on the CNN show This is Life, where they alleged that they were both sexually abused.
“I thought, I’m not the only one molested, he’s done it to her it must be something that was in his nature,” Becky said on the show, via CNN.
“Where does it end? If he had this in him, how can I trust him? How is he really our prophet?”
Despite being in jail, Jeffs is still in control of the 10,000-member congregation.
Over the years, Warren Jeffs’ story has been told several times, and will now be the subject of a new Netflix documentary.
The four-part series, Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey, will show viewers first-hand accounts from survivors and go into detail about Jeffs’ crimes.
Among the survivors in the series is Elissa Wall, who recalled the time she was forced to marry her first cousin when she was only 14.
“The front of my wedding dress just got more and more soaked [with tears],” Wall recalled, via Entertainment Weekly.
Elissa’s sister Rebecca, who was married to 83-year-old Rulon, Jeffs’ father, added, “I would do anything I could to make him fall asleep.
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“Then I could pass by another night without having him touch me.”
Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey will premiere on Netflix on June 8, 2022.
