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Stolen Innocence

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HarperCollins, Oct 13, 2009 - True Crime - 464 pages

In September 2007, a packed courtroom in St. George, Utah, sat hushed as Elissa Wall, the star witness against polygamous sect leader Warren Jeffs, gave captivating testimony of how Jeffs forced her to marry her first cousin at age fourteen. This harrowing and vivid account proved to be the most compelling evidence against Jeffs, showing the harsh realities of this closed community and the lengths that Jeffs went to in order to control the women in it. Now, in this courageous memoir, Elissa Wall tells her incredible and inspirational story of her time in the Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints (FLDS), detailing how she emerged from its confines to help bring one of America's most notorious criminals to justice.

  

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The writing was laugh out loud terrible. - Goodreads
Educational for sure. - Goodreads
This book gives a great insight into the FLDS Church. - Goodreads
Mr. Harpe did an ok job of writing this book. - Goodreads
for the story than the writing. - Goodreads

Review: Stolen Innocence: My Story of Growing Up in a Polygamous Sect, Becoming a Teenage Bride, and Breaking Free of Warren Jeffs

User Review  - Erica - Goodreads

Probably the media coverage in the past few years made this story seem like old news. The writing was okay, but dragged a bit, could have had better editing. But I credit the author for her bravery ... Read full review

Review: Stolen Innocence: My Story of Growing Up in a Polygamous Sect, Becoming a Teenage Bride, and Breaking Free of Warren Jeffs

User Review  - Jan Cole - Goodreads

Mr. Harpe did an ok job of writing this book. However I found that there are a lot of facts that are just speculation and cannot be verified. I think that because his name is Harpe (the same as the ... Read full review

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Contents

Prologue
1
PART
5
A New Mother
7
Growing Up and Keeping Sweet
22
Good Priesthood Children
41
In Light and Truth
51
The Rise of Warren
63
Out of Control
78
Refuge in Canada
234
Nowhere to Run
249
A Pair of Headlights
260
Promise Not to Tell
276
A Story Like Mine
288
Love at Last
305
Choosing My Future
317
PART THREE
329

7
82
Reassignment
90
Preparing for Zion
105
A Revelation Is Made
114
The Celestial Law
127
The Word of the Prophet
140
Man and Wife
152
All Alone
166
PART
185
Survival Begins
187
The Destruction Is Upon Us
201
Death Comes to Short Creek
215
False Prophet
224
New Beginnings
331
Coming Forward
347
Captured
358
Facing Warren
365
The Trial Begins
381
The End Is In Sight
399
Am Free
419
Epilogue
429
Afterword
437
Authors Note
445
Acknowledgments
447
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About the author (2009)

Elissa Wall is a former member of the FLDS church who was forced into marriage at age fourteen. She left the FLDS at age eighteen and she currently resides with her two children and her husband, Lamont.

Jenna Miscavige Hill, the niece of David Miscavige, the current ecclesiastical and business leader of the Church of Scientology, was raised as a Scientologist. Since leaving the organization in 2005, she has become one of its most prominent critics. She cofounded the website www.exscientologykids.com, which features the stories of current and former Scientologists and supports those who choose to leave the organization. She lives in Southern California.

Lisa Pulitzer is a former correspondent for the New York Times and coauthor of more than a dozen nonfiction titles, including New York Times bestsellers Stolen Innocence, Imperfect Justice, and Mob Daughter.

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