![]() ![]() It's just amazing to me to think that there is actually a group like this in America, the land of the free, where young girls are married off to older men, young boys are cast away to keep them from "stealing" away those young girls from the older men, and the "law enforcement" within the town completely disregards the law of the land when it goes against Jeffs' desires and decrees. Sometimes there are just too many names to keep up with, and sometimes the book felt like it dragged some (especially towards the end, at least for me), but I think this book is a worthwhile read. And he does an excellent job of describing what exactly was going on in Short Creek and how he tried to bring the men responsible for the abuse to justice. I think that Sam Brower does a good job of sketching the group's history, from how it started to how Warren Jeffs rose to power within the group. Reproduce freely with attribution.DISCLAIMER: I received this book free from the publisher through the Early Reviewer's program.After having read Elissa Wall's memoir about the abuse she suffered in Warren Jeffs' FLDS, I was interested in reading more about the group and its leader. But capturing the criminal hasn’t put an end to the crime.Īny original material on these pages is copyright © 2004. For a while he occupied a place on the FBI’s most-wanted list between Osama bin Laden and James “Whitey” Bulger. Jeffs is said to be still running the FLDS from his jail cell as many as 10,000 members continue to follow his teachings. Yet many of those blighted children were returned to their families after an appeals court ruled that the authorities had overstepped their bounds, while Mr. (The Church of Latter-Day Saints renounced the doctrine of polygamy in 1890.) And some of the child victims were freed by authorities from what amounted to imprisonment and enslavement in FLDS compounds, thanks in large measure to an activist attorney general in Utah. Jeffs is in prison for the rest of his life, having been captured in 2006 during a traffic stop near Las Vegas, and convicted, in 2007, of two felony counts of child assault. ![]() ![]() ![]() Was, and by all accounts in “Prophet’s Prey,” still is-that’s the most shocking part. Jeffs’s rogue church was, fundamentally, a crime syndicate built by and for sexual predators. Jeffs took over the church on his father’s death, declared himself a prophet, promoted polygamy that frequently involved underage girls, set up isolated communities throughout the vastness of the Southwest and reigned supreme over thousands of believers as a veritable godhead, All the while, the film contends persuasively, Mr. The half-educated son of a crackpot father who ran a splinter group calling itself the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS), Mr. ‘prophet’s Prey’ Review: a Predator and His FlockĪs horror upon horror unfolds in “Prophet’s Prey,” Amy Berg’s shocking documentary about the mad polygamist Warren Jeffs and his followers, one may marvel, in horror, at the elaborate forms that deviancy can take. ‘prophet’s Prey’ Review: a Predator and His Flock, by Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal, ![]()
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