![]() Eventually, Carolyn succeeded in being granted sole custody of her children, but not without the help of a team of state workers, psychologists, lawyers, philanthropists, and the independent living skills she was able to acquire, being one of the few FLDS women to have gone to, and completed, university. In 2003, she escaped, living on welfare in shelters, and then a set of trailors. ![]() She recalls her struggle to stop having children with Merril Jessop in order to concoct a realistic plan to get her growing brood of children out of the FLDS compound in Colorado City, Arizona. Carolyn Jessop’s first book, Escape(2007), recounts her marriage at 17 to a powerful FLDS member and the emotional abuse she endures, dished out not only by her husband but by some worse-than-catty sister wives. You know you’re obsessed when it makes your day to find out that your favourite polygamy autobiographer has written a follow-up book. ![]()
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